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🎙️✨ Welcome to “Revise and Resubmit” — your favourite stop for Weekend Classics! 🎧📚
This is the podcast where forgotten texts get a second chance, and old ideas find new voices.
🧮📖 Today, we rewind the mathematical clock to the year 1880, where a modest private tutor, George Shoobridge Carr, dared to write a book that would silently shape the future of mathematics. The episode is titled: “A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics” — a book so crisp, so dense, and so unapologetically ambitious, that it turned from a student’s aid into the spark behind the genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Yes, that Ramanujan. 🔥🧠
Carr never imagined that his meticulously indexed, formula-stuffed pages—meant just for passing the Tripos—would ignite one of the greatest minds the world has ever known. 📘✍️ From algebra to conics, from spherical trigonometry to the theory of equations, this was less a textbook and more a mathematical jungle gym for a self-taught prodigy climbing toward the infinite.
💡 But here's the question: Can the structure of one man’s notes truly awaken the intuition of another? Or is genius merely waiting for the right page to turn?
🌟 A big thank you to George Shoobridge Carr for this timeless treasure, and to Cambridge University Press for reissuing it in all its glory.
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See you in the next episode — until then, stay curious and keep revising! 🔁✨
Reference
Carr, G. S. (2014). A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics (Volume 1 and Volume 2). https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139248549
Archived PDF of the old book - G. S. Carr, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics,. C. F. Hodgson and Son, London, 1880, 1886; reprinted by Chelsea,. New York, 1970 https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/196174216674_10151380696521675.pdf
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