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by ar813 2189 days ago
Erdős apparently came up with the following poem to break the ice, which is pretty funny!

This is the city of Madras / The home of the curry and the dal Where Iyers speak only to Iyengars/ And Iyengars speak only to God.

Was that last line a reference to Ramanujan?

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Like, and maybe inspired by, that poem about Boston Brahmins:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin