Indian Biographies

A few years ago a Danish lady-friend with whom I was wont to discuss Indian history and culture suggested I put together a few biographies of Indian personalities who have appeared on the stamps of their country. I have now more or less caught up with converting my original pages - now completely stripped of java and javascript - and with placing them in a series of pages called Who's Who on Indian Stamps. Hoping they could be of consequence or interest to others I have made them available here.

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The mathematician Ramanujan has always fascinated me, ever since I first heard of a "taxicab number". I'll snag the story from Wikipedia:

...." an incident involving mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan. As told by Hardy: "I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No", he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two [positive] cubes in two different ways."" (1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3)

It has been said of Ramanujan, "every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."

http://indian-bios.blogspot.com/201...iyangar.html

Ryan

@ryan
I read somewhere but couldn't never verify that Ramanujan could square- and cube-root mentally any number of up to 6 digits.
I need divine assistance to balance my bankbook.

Great yarn, Ryan.

Somewhere in Northern India is the first recorded evidence
of the written numeral Zero
We have a lot to thank India for, not the least the Zero

The Sunya Zero on a stamp from Nichtsburg & Zilchstadt

shunya is also the time when a cycle stops before another begins. very very nice