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Ramanujan, 1729 and Fermat's Last Theorem

Written By Stand-up Maths on Thursday, Apr 28, 2016 | 08:17 PM

 
Some things you probably did not know about 1729 and the Man Who Knew Infinity. Scan of page from Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook http://i.imgur.com/xsfXHUz.jpg Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fermats-Last-Theorem-Confounded-Greatest/dp/1841157910/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21 PDF of the first lecture from Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50166092/Ramanujan%20-%20G%20H%20Hardy%20-%201940.pdf Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/KJOuV Plus magazine “Ramanujan surprises again” https://plus.maths.org/content/ramanujan “The 1729 K3 Surface” by Ken Ono and Sarah Trebat-Leder http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00735 Generating Function -- from Wolfram MathWorld http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeneratingFunction.html The Man Who Knew Infinity Official Trailer #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXGm9Vlfx4w Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNcEguuFSA Partitions - Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCIq58rZ8I James Grime: Knowing The Man Who Knew Infinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGZVKwYNfk Mathologer: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKRGpMiVTw Matt and Hugh play with a thing and then do some working out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8b9r7forJA Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ Book: http://makeanddo4D.com/ Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/