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the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_
by vitriol83 2mo ago
the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number
- exochrono 2mo agoWikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.
- olooney 2mo agoStigler's Law of Eponymy strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy