Ramanujan, 1729 and Fermat's Last Theorem

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Some things you probably did not know about 1729 and the Man Who Knew Infinity.

Scan of page from Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook
http://i.imgur.com/xsfXHUz.jpg

Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fermats-Last-Theorem-Confounded-Greatest/dp/1841157910/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21

PDF of the first lecture from Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50166092/Ramanujan%20-%20G%20H%20Hardy%20-%201940.pdf

Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/KJOuV

Plus magazine “Ramanujan surprises again”
https://plus.maths.org/content/ramanujan

“The 1729 K3 Surface” by Ken Ono and Sarah Trebat-Leder
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00735

Generating Function -- from Wolfram MathWorld
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeneratingFunction.html

The Man Who Knew Infinity Official Trailer #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXGm9Vlfx4w

Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNcEguuFSA

Partitions - Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCIq58rZ8I

James Grime: Knowing The Man Who Knew Infinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGZVKwYNfk

Mathologer: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKRGpMiVTw

Matt and Hugh play with a thing and then do some working out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8b9r7forJA


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