Twenty Questions - Game 112

[sweetandcool]

Does he appear on any of these lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ournalists
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-o ... ts-2025637
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ilosophers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... th_century

No.

[sweetandcool]

1. Real
2. Born after 1840
3. Male
4. Dead
5. Was not bald.
6. Not born in or after 1900
7. Not born in the British Isles.
8. Not known for politics, military service, government service, public service, or social activism.
9. Not born in America or Antarctica.
10. First name starts with a consonant.
11. Not a scientist, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, businessman, or tycoon.
12. Not an artist.
13. Died before 1930.
14. Not a native speaker of a romance language.
15. Not a sportsperson, murderer, or taxidermist.
16. Did not have a job relating to Healthcare, automobile, or policing.
17. WAS a journalist, academic, royalty, private detective, polar explorer, employee of the League of Nations or anyone associated with the Red Cross movement.
18. Not on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historians
19. Not on either of these lists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polar_explorers
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-o ... ts-2025637
20. Not on any of these lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ournalists
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-o ... ts-2025637
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ilosophers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... th_century

NOT:
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel [Jamiet99uk]
Roald Amundsen [damo666]
Banjo Paterson [dargorgel]
Tsar Nicolas III [Dousing]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand [Foxcastle]
Note: DID briefly occupy a not particularly noteworthy government job.

[Jamiet99uk]

Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.

[Foxcastle]

Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.

Or some kind of academic who is not a philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, or historian...

[Jamiet99uk]

Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.

Or some kind of academic who is not a philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, or historian...

Topics that could qualify:

Geography
Law
<Language>
<Language's> Literature
Business Studies

...?

[Foxcastle]

Can I get a clarification: are sociology, mathematics, and economics considered to be sciences?

[sweetandcool]

Can I get a clarification: are sociology, mathematics, and economics considered to be sciences?

Sociology would count, certainly I would consider someone who does research and performs experiments in those fields to be scientists.

Mathematics isn't a science, it's its own thing. You do not conduct experiments (unless your studies are very applied and specific to another field). Consequently, I would not consider a mathematician to be a scientist.

Economics is a sort of middle ground. I'm not sure. So I will give more free info: not an economist.

[damo666]

Ramanujan

[sweetandcool]

Ramanujan

Well done!

Ramanujan was a mathematician who had insane intuition. According to Ramanujan many of his theorems were inspired by visions he had while he slept. He had a ton of results that he never bothered formally proving, but even still today most of his results are still actively being proven as correct. A true testament to his genius.

My favorite theorem of his: The infinite divergent sum of 1+2+3+4+....= -1/12.

[Jamiet99uk]

Well done, Damo.

[damo666]

Thank you. 113 up shortly.