Over a hundred years ago, a young Indian wrote a letter to the leading mathematician of his time, G. H. Hardy of Cambridge University. Hardy realised that the mathematics in Srinivasa Ramanujan’s letter was brilliant, that the self-taught mathematician from rural India had discovered some of the fundamental theories of mathematics, with no formal training.

Hardy invited Ramanujan to England, and the two men worked together for five years. In those five years Ramanujan set the world of mathematics ablaze with his new and exciting ideas.

However, the English weather took it’s toll on the young Indian, and as his health failed he returned to India. As he lay dying, he wrote to Hardy telling him of mysterious functions he had seen in a dream. The devout Hindu, believed that the goddess Namagiri had shown them to him.

Now a team of mathematicians from Emory University have proved that these functions are true, “We’ve solved the problems from his last mysterious letters. For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years,” Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said.

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