If Ramanujan was on twitter, what would he tweet and how would I find him?
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In the meantime, highly recommend reading, “My Search for Ramanujan” by Ken Ono
1/Also, to find Ramanujan, you would have to understand his catnip: a Twitter thread/account that is similar to "Carr's Synopsis", containing 6165 theorems and only terse explanations, thereby motivating him to find his own proofs.
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not sure how true this is.."Ramanujan seldom bothered to prove his own theorems"https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/980383203910471680 …
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Oh, I am speaking to his younger days when he first became obsessed. And yes, part of what made helping Ramanujan a challenge was R's intuitional leaps; Hardy wanted R to establish as many rigorous proofs as he could to gain credibility.
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And also, Hardy had to bring him up to speed with modern mathematics.
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(Although, I don't recall whether Hardy was able to.)
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2/Secondly, the person meeting him would have to be able to recognize him, because he is more often driven by a search for unexpected beauty, or convergence, or a dream from God, than the more mechanical archetypes of genius people fancy in their mind.
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