The Sad Story of India's Math Prodigy

Published: 22 August 2023
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Srinivasa Ramanujan flunked college, then somehow ended up at Cambridge University. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.

Correction: @0:24 locator for Chennai is slightly off, should be coastal. My bad!

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