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Ramanujan's death-bed proved right 100 years on
December 31, 2012
Researchers have finally solved the cryptic deathbed puzzle renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed came to him in dreams.

While on his death-bed in 1920, Ramanujan wrote a letter to his mentor, English mathematician GH Hardy, outlining several new mathematical functions never before heard of, along with a hunch about how they worked,Decades years later, researchers say they've proved he was right - and that the formula could explain the behaviour of black holes. Read more
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