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Researchers Unlock Formula Written By Brilliant Indian Mathematician On His Death Bed
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Staff"We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters. For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years," Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said.
Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.
But the cold weather eventually weakened Ramanujan's health, and when he was dying, he went home to India.