In 1976, They Found His Lost Notebook. It Predicted Black Holes.

Srinivasa Ramanujan: the Indian clerk whose 1913 letter to Cambridge predicted black holes and broke G.H. Hardy's mind. The Indian Mathematician Who Out-Thought Cambridge From a Clerk's Desk. In 1913, a 25-year-old shipping clerk in Madras named Srinivasa Ramanujan mailed a letter of strange infinite series to G.H. Hardy at Cambridge, who realized the self-taught Indian had independently rediscovered — and surpassed — a century of European number theory. The video follows Ramanujan's improbable journey to wartime England, the cultural and health crises that broke him by 1920, and why mathematicians are still proving theorems he simply 'saw.' (Source: history_topic.) Chapters: 0:00 The Letter That Shocked Cambridge 0:25 A Clerk With No Training 0:55 120 Impossible Theorems 1:35 Hardy's Midnight Realization 2:01 Forbidden Voyage to England 2:41 Wartime Cambridge and 30-Hour Math 3:21 Fellow of the Royal Society 3:41 The 1729 Taxicab Moment 4:12 The Illness That Broke Him #Ramanujan #History #Mathematics #HiddenHistory #Cambridge Watch next:    • The Smell That Broke the British Governmen...