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Screenshot of albert.ias.edu: Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945)

Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945)(albert.ias.edu)

4 points by georgecmu 29 days ago | 0 comments

An Institute for Advanced Study archive link to a 1945 memorandum from Hermann Weyl to IAS director Frank Aydelotte; it loaded only a Cloudflare verification page.

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Screenshot of quantamagazine.org: Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan (quantamagazine.org)

782 points by philiplu 2 years ago | 399 comments

Quanta Magazine profile of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self-taught Indian mathematician whose ideas continue to shape mathematics today.

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Screenshot of link.springer.com: Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)(link.springer.com)

727 points by samaysharma 3 years ago | 199 comments

Article reporting that a Babylonian clay tablet shows knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem roughly 1,000 years before Pythagoras.

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Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945)(albert.ias.edu)

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan(quantamagazine.org)

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)(link.springer.com)

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan (quantamagazine.org)