Re: Weniger als alef

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:16:58 +0100, Eckard Blumschein
<blumschein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Zeitweise glaubte und behauptete [Cantor], die Kontinuumshypothese
sei ihm direkt von Gott eingegeben worden."

So what? Was ist daran so ungewöhnlich?

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (December 22, 1887 ? April 26, 1920) was
a groundbreaking Indian mathematician. A child prodigy, he was largely
self-taught in mathematics. Ramanujan is considered one of the world's
greatest-ever mathematicians, proving over 3,000 theorems. Ramanujan
mainly worked in analytical number theory and is famous for many
summation formulas involving constants such as ?, prime numbers and
the partition function. Often, his formulae were stated without proof
and were only later proven to be true. His results inspired a large
amount of later research and mathematical papers. In 1997 the
Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work "in areas of
mathematics influenced by Ramanujan".

[...]

Ramanujan credited his understanding to his family Goddess, Namagiri,
and looked to her for inspiration in his work. He often said, "An
equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of
God."

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan


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