Ramanujan's Formula for π
He was such an oddity. All of the earlier formulas for calculating π involved mostly simple numbers. But look at Ramanujan's:
It makes sense that someone who instantly could see what a special number 1729 is could come up with a formula like the above.
It makes sense that someone who instantly could see what a special number 1729 is could come up with a formula like the above.
I think he has several of those, and I think I've read somewhere that they all seem to be right, but in some cases no one has been able to actually prove they are right.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a real genius.