Eye for Patterns

This story is of Prodigal son of India Ramanujan; who was born in India in 1887 to an impoverished family in the southern Indian state off Tamil Nadu. At the age of 22 who is survived a bout of smallpox but two of his siblings succumbed to the disease. He was enrolled in a very ordinary local School and found inspiration from a book he stumbled Upon in library- A Synopsis of Elementary results in pure Mathematics buy G. S. Carr. He investigated the theorems and proofs in the book on chalk and slate being unable to afford paper.

This interest in mathematics made him perform poorly in his school examinations and didn’t receive any scholarship from Indian colleges. He had to resort to taking a job as a clerk and mathematical tutor

He still pursued his interest and wrote to many universities abroad; it was then that he was noticed by professor G H Hardy in 1913 who was incredibly impressed with Ramanujan’s finesse.

Ramanujan with the help of G H Hardy went to Cambridge in April 1914. By 1918 he had been elected as one of the youngest fellows in the Royal Society, but unfortunately he fell quite seriously ill then and moved into a private Nursing Home.

When Ramanujan was recuperating here in India G H Hardi once came to visit Ramanujan in a taxi cab bearing the number 1729 and told him of this.
Hardy said that it seemed like a rather dull number. To that Ramanujan quickly replied no, rather it’s a very interesting number. If you carefully observe, It is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

1729= 1x1x1 + 12x12x12
1729= 9x9x9 + 10x10x10

*Today in mathematical circles these numbers are known as taxicab numbers in memory of this incident & prodigal son of India; Ramanujan*
Source- The Simpsons & their mathematical secrets by Simon Singh

*Learning from the story*

1. Everything that exists, exists for a reason and it has meaning to it. Our job is to find the meaning of it.
2. There is a set pattern of things and events happening in and around us. If you use your higher faculties, you will be able to find these patterns.
3. Once you are able to catch these patterns, you will be able to align yourself with these patterns and create results you aim for.

Questions to ask ourselves⁉
1. What are the patterns of highly successful entrepreneurs?
2. What are the patterns of highly successful businesses?
3. How can I align my life and business with these success patterns?

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