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Ramanujan's death-bed letter may clarify black holes

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Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s death-bed letter from 1920 has yielded a formula that could help physicists studying black holes.

“No one was talking about black holes back in the 1920s when Ramanujan first came up with mock modular forms, and yet, his work may unlock secrets about them,” says Emory University mathematician Ken Ono.

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