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Re: Favourite equation
Posted:
Sep 19, 2010 12:01 AM
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On Sep 19, 7:45 am, OwlHoot <ravensd...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 9:28 pm, Adrian Ferent <afer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > My favourite equation:
> > I am a WAVE and the wave function is:
> > |?> = c1 |?1> + c2|?2> + c3|?3> + c4|?4> + c5|?5> + c6|?6> + c7|?7>
> > are 7 states |?i > because are 7 major chakras or energy centers.
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> > Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all timehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3721406.stm
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> I _thought_ one of my favourite equations was Hardy & Ramanujan's
> asymptotically exact formula for the number of partitions of a
> positive integer, and that Rademacher had obtained a simpler
> but rougher estimate.
>
> But on checking Wikipedia recently I found the story was the
> exact opposite - H & R had obtained the simple approximation
> and it was Rademacher who derived the complicated but exact
> representation. Huh? Just shows, one can't trust everything
> one reads, and even less one's recollection of things read
> years ago.
>
> In fact I could have sworn Hardy (or maybe Littlewood) wrote
> somewhere that without Ramanujan's amazing intuition nobody
> might have discovered his formula for decades or perhaps
> centuries!
Hardy writing such a thing about Ramanujan would not be inconsistent
with Rademacher, having seen Ramanujan's work, going him one better.
--
GM
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