Thursday, February 16, 2006

Ramanujam's proof....!!

Can U Prove 3=2 ??

This seems to be an anomaly or whatever u call in mathematics.
It seems, Ramanujam found it but never disclosed it during his life time and that it has been found from his diary.
See this illustration:
-6 = -6
9-15 = 4-10
adding 25/4 to both sides:
9-15+(25/4) = 4-10+(25/4 )
Changing the order
9+(25/4)-15 = 4+(25/4)-10
(this is just like : a square + b square - two a b = (a-b)square.)
Here a = 3, b=5/2 for L.H.S and a =2, b=5/2 for R.H.S.
So it can be expressed as follows:
(3-5/2)(3-5/2) = (2-5/2)(2-5/2)
Taking positive square root on both sides:
3 - 5/2 = 2 - 5/2
3 = 2 ????????


Can u find any flaws??

Regards
RK
"Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean"

4 comments:

RK Veluvali said...

That's nice...

Regards
RK

Anonymous said...

it dosent mean that if the squares of two numbers are same then the two numbers are same
coz the square of any number is always +ve
ie we know that (5)^2 = (-5)^2 but you cannot say that 5 = - 5 can u?

(3-5/2)(3-5/2) = (2-5/2) (2-5/2)


here u will find that 3-5/2 = -(2-5/2)



and not




3 - 5/2 = -2 + 5/2

Anonymous said...

You have written

Taking positive square root on both sides:

3 - 5/2 = 2 - 5/2

2 - 5/2 is not positive. The correct is:-

Taking positive square root on both sides:

|3 - 5/2| = |2 - 5/2| (here |a| stands for modulus of a)

Or, |1/2| = |-1/2|

Or, 1/2 = 1/2 (because |1/2| = 1/2 and |-1/2| = 1/2)

No anomaly.

Avinash

Ajit Pattar said...

hey ,
thats correct , u can't take positive sqrt all the time...
but it was nice.