"Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.""

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Source : Robert Kanigel (2016). “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

Robert Kanigel

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“I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.”
“I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.”
“I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.”
“"Facilitate my thinking" means thinking about who I am as a human being in relation to the world around me. It's how I position myself, how I navigate through this world. That to me is thinking. It is also exhausting to constantly be making art that in some ways responds to the conditions of the world around you. I gave myself permission to turn all of that off, and to lose myself in work.”
“No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.”
“The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.”

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