On 01-29-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Frank Masingill... 
 MB>  We should not forget "Srinivasa Ramanujan", (1887-1920) an Englishman 
 MB>  would say "was a mathematician so great that his name transcends 
 MB>  jealousies, the one superlatively great mathematician whom India has 
 MB>  produced in the last thousand years."  A black vegetarian Indian from 
 MB>  Kumbakonam, who grew up praying to stone deities, whose family 
 MB> goddess to whom he purported his mathematical insights were owed.... 
My education may be lacking, my memory may be failing; my study 
of Comp Sci goes back to a minor in 1971, but whatever, I don't 
recall this guy Mark.  Nor do I know that he is not Aryan.  They 
have been in India since Mohenjadaro; the Bhramins have been seen 
as praying to stone gods by westerners who do not know the great 
difference between an Avatar and an ignorant's idolatry.  They do 
not pray to a stone god anymore than you pray to a wooden cross. 
 
You may still have a good case Mark, but this guy ain't it.
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