Ramanujan - Der Mann, der die Unendlichkeit & die Akasha-Chronik Kannte

In January 1913, the famous British mathematician Gottfried Harald Hardy received an unusual letter by mail. It began with the words, Dear Sir, I would like to introduce myself to you as an employee in the accounting department of the Port Trust Office in Madras with an annual salary of only 20 pounds. Then he presented seemingly outrageous claims, namely that the author had made amazing progress in a theory of divergent rows in mathematics and had solved a well-established problem of the distribution of prime numbers. As a prominent mathematician, Hardy did not receive letters from fanatics and lunatics who made ridiculous statements and made wild claims. At first glance, this seemed to fit, but as Hardy looked closer, he quickly realized that this letter was something completely different. The letter contained 120 advanced mathematical theorems on ten pages. Some, Hardy recognized, seemed to be independent rediscoveries of already proven concepts, while others appeared completely groundbreaking and even amazed the great Hardy. After he had shown the letter to his colleague John Addison Littlewood, Hardy came to the conclusion that the results must be true, because if they were not true, no one would have had the fantasy of inventing them. He immediately suspected that the letter must have been written by a mathematician of the highest talent, a kind of genius like Euler or Jacobi. There was only one question left. Who was this mysterious man, this Indian employee who earned 20 pounds a year? How was it possible that this completely unknown man was the world's largest mathematician and even surpassed him? On December 22, 1887, a child was born in Madras, India, one of many in the country of almost 300 million inhabitants at the time. It was named Ramanujan, which means the brother of Rama, a Hindu deity. But that wasn't just any child. Before Srinivasa Ramanujan came into puberty, he had almost coincidentally become a mathematical miracle child. At the age of 11, he passed on his knowledge to two college students who were then housed in his family. At the age of 13, he mastered advanced trigonometry without a teacher, alone from a book that someone had lent him, and began to develop his own theorems. At the age of 16, he came across George Shoebridge Carr's groundbreaking work, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, and began to work through his 5,000 theorems. The following year, he developed and studied the Bernoulli numbers independently of Ramanujan and calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant on 15 decimal places. He did this as a teenager and without any mentorship, which the greatest mathematical minds in the world had worked tirelessly for centuries. His peers and schoolmates said they had rarely understood him, and rather stood there in respectful awe. His school principal said, while he was handing him a mathematics prize, that Ramanujan had earned a score that was above the maximum. In recognition of his obvious skills, Ramanujan received a scholarship at the end of high school to study at the renowned Government Arts College in Kumbakonam. But when he was there, he could concentrate on nothing other than mathematics and failed most of his other courses, and his scholarship was withdrawn from him. He left school, returned, left it again, before he took a position as a simple government employee. At every opportunity, he did independent mathematical research and often lived in poverty and on the brink of starvation, supported only by his indoor brilliance. Here, the story of Ramanujan could have ended, unknown and undiscovered, in a dusty office, buried under the files of an employee. Perhaps it would have been so, had he not written a letter to G.H. Hardy in 1913. It was Hardy, who had saved Ramanujan's letter from the literal garbage bin of history and was fortunately open enough to see that he had discovered something incredible in his author. In a burst of excitement, the appearance of experts recognizing virtuosity, he immediately made an effort to bring Ramanujan to England to accompany him to the University of Cambridge. After initial resistance, Ramanujan agreed and embarked on the difficult journey through the Suez Canal, from the jewel of the empire to his heart. Upon his arrival in England, Ramanujan Hardy was surprised by his natural abilities. Here he was an uneducated mathematician with an eccentric style that no one had seen before and a talent that felt limitless. Through their collaboration, Hardy provided the training that Ramanujan had previously lacked and metaphorically polished the diamond as well as he could. Soon after, Ramanujan surprised experienced mathematicians with theorems that had been unsolved for centuries and ideas that had never been considered before. In a short time, he became an almost mythical figure in the mathematics community, a sensation with seemingly impossible skills. At the age of 31, he was appointed one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and was then the first Indian to ever be elected Fellow of Trinity College. The miracle child had become a phenomenon as an adult. Then he was gone again as quickly as he came. At the end of the First World War, Ramanujan returned to India. During the war, he suffered from health problems and had difficulty eating vegetarianly according to his religious belief. Shortly thereafter, he died at the age of 32. Years after Ramanujan´s death, Hardy was asked to evaluate prominent mathematicians on the basis of their pure talent on a scale of 1 to 100. He gave himself a 25, his colleague and friend Littlewood a 30, the legendary German mathematician David Hilbert, one of the most influential minds of the 19th century, he gave an 80, Ramanujan gave a score of 100. After working closely with Ramanujan, Hardy remembered his unique ability with the following statement. He combined a generalization ability, a sense of form and an ability to quickly modify his hypotheses, which were often really amazing. This made him unrivaled in his special field at the time. The limits of his knowledge were just as amazing as his depth. Here was a man who was able to work out modular equations and theorems in unprecedented order of magnitude, whose mastery of the chain breaks was beyond what any other mathematician in the world could master. He found for himself the function equation of the zeta function and the most important dimensions for many of the most well-known problems in the analytical number theory. And yet he had never heard of a double periodic function or the Cauchy theorem, and in fact only had the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable was. In short, Ramanujan was able to surpass even the greatest mathematicians, although he lacked the basic tools they used. He did not build his work on the work of others, but seemed to invent only for himself. In total, Ramanujan collected about 3,900 mathematical results in his lifetime. With his death, almost all of his claims proved to be true, which opened up completely new areas of study and inspired many other research. In fact, his influence in this field was so significant that the Ramanujan Journal was created as a scientific publication, which dedicated itself exclusively to the work in the fields of mathematics that were influenced by Ramanujan. But in the course of the decades, something even more overwhelming arose, another layer in the legend of Ramanujan. While science and mathematics have developed further, Ramanujan's work has become relevant for areas that did not yet exist in his lifetime, in areas such as computer science, electrical engineering and the research of black holes. Consider, for example, that at his time no one knew that black holes were something that could be explored, but Ramanujan had already developed a formula that was used generations later to describe their properties. As mathematician Ken Ono recently described at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Ramanujan's formulas gave insights into theories that Ramanujan probably would not have been able to articulate, theories that no one needed until he needed them. How is that possible? How could Ramanujan know about things that did not exist? How was he able to convey insights that go so far beyond what was understood at the time? Ono said that it is unimaginable that he had this intuition, but he must have had it. While his colleague Freeman Dyson from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton announced that Ramanujan had some magic tricks that we do not understand. Maybe Dyson was on the right track. Maybe there was one factor that we do not understand at work. Not magic, but something else. Ramanujan was known as a deeply religious Hindu. He often wrote to the goddess Namagiri about his mathematical skills and claimed that an equation does not mean anything to him, unless it represents a thought of God. He described the dream of drops of blood that symbolized these goddesses, and how he received visions of complex mathematical formulas on scrolls that unfolded before his eyes. It may sound hard to believe, or maybe as if Ramanujan had given up his eccentricity, but strangely enough, it is not a unique story among high-ranking thinkers. The creator of the periodic system, the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, said that all elements in his dream appeared to him, including some that had not even been discovered and simply disappeared before his eyes. Albert Einstein was famous for his thought experiments, in which he sat there in silent loneliness and imagined the results of theoretical concepts. In one of these thought experiments, he came up with the famous equation E equals m times c squared. Even Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is said to have received the inspiration for the iPhone in a daydream. There are many stories like this among the most legendary thinkers of mankind, stories of random inspiration that were apparently drawn from nothingness. But there is an explanation that goes beyond magic or coincidence. The explanation is something called the Akashic Chronicle. From the Sanskrit word akash, which refers to the essence of all things in the material world. What Plato and Aristotle called the quintessence is the Akashic Chronicle, a universal database of all human knowledge and experiences. This database is said to be on a higher level of existence and accessible to everyone at any time. Proponents of this concept point out that even the Christian tradition seems to point to the existence of this database. In Revelation 20, John the Apostle writes, And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, that is the book of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books according to their works. Is this book of life just another name for the Akashic Chronicle? When Ramanujan perhaps received visions of complex mathematical formulas, or when Mendeleev dreamed the period system, or Einstein conducted thought experiments, or Steve Jobs saw the iPhone in a daydream, what they really did was access to the Akashic Chronicle. The perhaps most passionate advocate of the existence of the Akashic Chronicle is none other than Nikola Tesla. In his book published in 1907, Man's Greatest Achievement, Tesla said, All perceptible matter originates from a primordial substance, or a constancy beyond the imagination that fills the whole room, the Akasha, or luminous ether, on which the life-giving prana or the creative force acts, which in never-ending cycles calls all things and phenomena into existence. Another well-known quote from Nikola Tesla is, My brain is just a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we create knowledge, power and inspiration. I have not yet penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. Could this explain why these people were so far ahead of their contemporaries? Could they have accessed the Akasha Chronicle, where all human knowledge and all experiences are stored? It can also explain why miracle children like Mozart had achieved such a level of performance in such young years, or why historical inventions such as the telephone, the airplane and the theory of evolution were not only developed by Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers and Charles Darwin, but also by others, regardless of them, almost exactly at the same time. Perhaps these people had access to the knowledge contained in the Akasha Chronicle, regardless of each other. For Ramanujan, this is an important question. Every year, his work seems to deliver new revelations, new relevant applications, whether in the black holes or in other ways. It has already been speculated that Ramanujan's work could have a decisive relevance in the future for concepts of the next level, such as time travel, antigravity and limitless energy. The question is, if Ramanujan actually accessed the Akasha Chronicle, the universal database of all human knowledge, how much did he learn from it? 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