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Remember when I used to be dumb? Well I'm better now. [Stan Laurel - 'Pack Up Your Troubles."]
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― Laurel & Hardy - The British Tours
― Laurel & Hardy - The British Tours
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Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.
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― The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
― The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan



























