Not all mathematicians like clunky formulas. Or formulas. And no, I don't think he was a "god among men". He was a hugely gifted person who was denied appropriate education (and food/care) by a cruel system. Very likely that many more like him have perished unknown.
Ramanujan was a god amongst men if there is a geometric interpretation for this, i'm dying to know..pic.twitter.com/1AFlLOIltT
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(1) On your first point, I'm actually not a huge fan of this formula aesthetically either. However this equation has a much different beauty, i think. The kind of beauty that a blues dissonance takes. (2) I agree with everything you say after this.
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I think there's probably no real reason and it's probably just a magic coincidence...
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It should be noted that Ramanujan didn't just write this down. He derived this, and 16 other interesting expressions for 1/pi, by studying the properties of elliptic integrals and modular forms.
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It's also very interesting to note that this formula is intimately related to the following near-integer formula (edited a second time because I can't figure out minus signs)pic.twitter.com/mgNPMqCbjZ
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Looks like an ugly perturbative QFT calculation in curved spacetime, like the renormalization of the stress energy tensor in polynomial gravity, two-loop calculations, a5 heat kernel or b8 Hamidew coefficients ;-)
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bless you
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