Alpha Zero - The inhuman human!
"Never think you understood a work in physics if all you had done was to read someone else's derivation. The only way to really understand a theory, is, to derive it yourself..." - Richard Feynman " Ramanujan's " (the great mathematician from Kumbakonam, India), E.H.Neville an English mathematician, said, " mind is free, or, shall we say, was the slave of his genius ?" .....and his genius was such that, he transcended the existing level in mathematics that his teachers and contemporaries in Kumbakonam knew, and there were no material available for him to do advanced mathematics. How was this possible!? Ramanujan had to reinvent most of the existing mathematics, that wasn't known in his hometown, in his formative years - and many later thought this as a constraint and perhaps, he wasted time in doing so. But, this for me is the key factor! Perhaps, this process of reinvention is what dug deep within him to reach and attain an und...