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On 16 January 1913, an unknown accounts clerk at the Madras Port Trust mailed Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy pages crammed with dozens of extraordinary theorems and almost no proofs. Hardy initially suspected a crank, then spent an evening examining them with J.E. Littlewood; before midnight, both knew the sender was a genius. His name was Srinivasa Ramanujan.

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1651+ words) Ramanujan's 1913 letter looked implausible because it compressed deep mathematics into unsupported claims. Hardy's response mattered because suspicion led to examination rather than dismissal. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 5, 2026 · How we edit The envelope that reached…...

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A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in a fresh sample it was right only 29 percent of the time, which is the trouble with rules like these

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (887+ words) A breakthrough divorce prediction model lost its power in the real world, revealing how statistical success in the lab can mask failure where it counts. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit The…...