Elon Musk's statement may have made Ramanujan-Hardy laugh in heaven: A wonderful mathematical tale of the union of East and West, a partnership that the British scientist called a romantic incident

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said in an interview that in this era of artificial intelligence, students should pay more attention to basic subjects like physics and mathematics instead of computer programming. His statement worried many students studying computer science. But, hearing this, two great mathematicians in heaven G. H. Hardy and our own Srinivasa Ramanujan must have looked at each other and smiled. At the same time, the great physicist Richard Feynman must have seen this moment as a witness and consented to it. Elon Musk says learn physics and math instead of computer programming Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said in an interview that students of artificial intelligence should focus more on learning physics and mathematics than computer programming in that era. His statement woke up many computer science students overnight. But two great men in heaven, Godfrey Harold Hardy and our own Srinivasa Ramanujan, must have looked at each other and smiled. And yes, the equally great physicist Richard Feyman must have witnessed it. The meeting of two people who changed the direction and pace of the world These were the great men of history who made such an amazing contribution in the field of science, mathematics and physics even with very limited resources, on the basis of which many of today's scientific discoveries and keys to solving the mysteries of the universe are based, but many great scientists, astronomers, physicists and mathematicians since then stand tall today. Sometimes in history, two people meet and that meeting changes not only their own lives but also the direction and speed of the whole world. The meeting between Godfrey Harold Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan was one such epoch-making event in the history of mathematics. Ramanujan's Faith in Both Mathematics and God For lovers, it is said that opposite attraction, two people of opposite temperaments are often attracted to each other and their relationship is formed. But this was the case with Godfrey Harold Hardy, the famous British mathematician of Cambridge, who was a firm believer in logic, proof, and provable mathematics. On the other side was a young man from India, a self-taught mathematician, who had no formal university training because of poverty, but a wonderful relationship with numbers that would have taken a long time for experienced mathematicians to prove. Whose faith in both mathematics and God is the same due to centuries of Indian culture. And perhaps the partnership between God and mathematics was also behind how Hardy and Ramanujan, who are today regarded as one of the most extraordinary partnerships in the history of mathematics, met. Ramanujan wrote a letter to Hardy In 1913, Hardy received a letter from an unknown young man from India, containing numerous mathematical formulas and results. Some of these things were known, some were provable, and some were wrong. But there were also some things that were extremely strange and mysterious to Hardy and his colleague J.E. Littlewood. Hardy, who had the ability to solve mathematical puzzles as well as the puzzles of a person's genius, quickly understood that the writer of this letter was no ordinary person. Ramanujan used to dream of statistics and paradigms. Ramanujan was quite different from the traditional Indian mathematics taught at that time. Ramanujan, who had a constant dream of numbers and patterns, worked tirelessly on complex topics such as numbers, continuous fractions, partitions and number theory. But there was no one in India at that time who could understand his unique friendship with these figures. His unique language of mathematics was not understood by anyone in school, college or family. So, in the hope that someone might understand the language of the numbers which he knew, he wrote a letter across the seven seas to Hardy, the great mathematician of the time; At the same time, he sent him some of the theorems he had developed and the innovative methods of mathematics. After reading the letter, Hardy decided to invite Ramanujan to Cambridge. His decision was not limited to just giving a chance to a talented youngster; It was the beginning of a new golden chapter in the entire history of mathematics. Together, the duo published five very important research papers After arriving at Cambridge, Hardy began to link Ramanujan's brilliant intuition and what he considered to be mathematics in his own unique style with formal proofs and systematic rules. The miracle that followed was something that even Hardy himself could never prove. Ramanujan had an uncanny ability to arrive at complex results directly, while Hardy had an enormous ability to prove them and present them to the mathematical world. Together, they published five very important research papers, which became a means of charting a new path in the world of mathematics, which is still being followed by many mathematicians today. Perhaps the same principle of intimacy worked behind the wonderful union For Hardy, mathematics meant mere proof, logic, and rigorous precision. For Ramanujan, mathematics was an inherently assimilated language. He often predicted the outcome of complex scenarios directly, but he did not have the traditional mathematical definition or proof of how he arrived at those results. On the other hand, the Indian tradition and culture are based on the principle of karma and the bond of karma. Hardy may not have been able to prove the existence of this relationship mathematically, but it was probably the same principle that worked behind this wonderful union between him and Ramanujan. Ramanujan believed that his deep understanding of mathematics was a divine inspiration Otherwise, Ramanujan, a poor, purely vegetarian boy living in a small village in South India, who himself firmly believed that his deep understanding of mathematics was inspired by God. On the other hand, can it be explained by mere logic that a scholar like Hardy, who taught at the world-famous University of Cambridge, who was at odds with such a great scholar as himself, and who believed only reason to be the ultimate truth? Ramanujan died at the young age of 32 Amid the extremely cold climate of England and the lack of a pure vegetarian diet, Ramanujan was eventually diagnosed with a serious illness like TB. So he had to return to India and died in 1920, at the young age of just 32, leaving his wife Janaki Ammal alone. But, the life of his notebooks and wonderful formulas did not end there; It has become immortal. Many popular stories are popular to illustrate Ramanujan's quirky genius Many popular stories illustrate Ramanujan's phenomenal genius in partitions, infinite series, modular forms, continuous fractions, and numerology. One of the stories is that Hardy gave himself a score of 25 and Ramanujan a full 100 on a scale of 100, but without a generous scientist like Hardy, who could identify true talent, Ramanujan's brilliance would not have reached the world so quickly. On the other hand, Hardy's own life would have been incomplete in many ways without Ramanujan's company. It is a wonderful coincidence of East and West, of imagination and logic Recognizing Ramanujan's extraordinary talent and taking his ideas to the formal world of mathematics, Hardy and Ramanujan's relationship was more than that of a teacher and a student. The meeting with Ramanujan, who considered the idea of God to be meaningless if he did not express it in any of his equations, was called "a romantic incident" by Hardy, who did not believe in anything without logic. And it was a wonderful coincidence of East and West, of imagination and logic.