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by blrgeek 4086 days ago
And one of the connections is Ramanujan's letters. Both the FIRST letter that he wrote to Hardy, and the LAST letter he wrote on his death-bed talking about 'mock-theta functions' that are now called mock-modular functions.

> Ken Ono, of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. “Without either letter, we couldn’t write this story.”

Weird, and fascinating!