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ar813 on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paul Erdős in Madras (2019)

Erdős apparently came up with the following poem to break the ice, which is pretty funny!

This is the city of Madras / The home of the curry and the dal Where Iyers speak only to Iyengars/ And Iyengars speak only to God.

Was that last line a reference to Ramanujan?

vram22 on June 22, 2020 [–]

Like, and maybe inspired by, that poem about Boston Brahmins:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin

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