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A thousand white guys with degrees couldn't stand up to him. Uneducated brown guy. Discovered the formula for pi. Said math was the language of the gods. Spoke it like he was one. Best mathematician since euler. Died at 33 because they couldn't fucking accept being made the fool.
God bless the Indians.
We'd be shitting in buckets without them.
A thousand white guys with degrees couldn’t stand up to him.
Nobody was trying to stand up to him. Some white dudes literally invited him to their university.
Discovered ~~the~~ a formula for pi.
FTFY. There are many methods for calculating pi. Some are thousands of years old.
Said math was the language of the gods.
It's not. It's literally a formal language made by people.
Best mathematician since euler.
That's subjective but I would put a number of people before this guy: Cantor, Godel, Turing, et al.
None of these people are gods.
Died at 33 because they couldn’t fucking accept being made the fool.
He died because there's no cure for TB.
racism is fake
"Race" is fake. Racism is very very real.