Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Sujata <shevaroys AT yahoo.com>]

I wonder if you had ever heard of a guy by the name
Ramanujan
http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html

Ramanujan's papers were initially thrown away because
he didnt have the "credentials".  Hardy went back to
them eventually, I wonder how many geniuses' papers
never saw the light for lack of a Hardy.

Best wishes,
Sujata

--- Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> 
> The view presented above is a romantic one of a lone
> genius making
> break-throughs. I don't know if ever was really true
> but its certainly
> not true today whether it be physics or Hebrew. Even
> if we concede their
> might be a lone worker in Hebrew who discovers the
> true workings of
> the verbal system, they still have to be published
> and subject to
> the scrutiny of the community of scholars before it
> will be accepted
> as such. That's the way things are.
> 
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