Lagrange, Laplace and Leibniz are the Glorious Trinity of Maths .
Lagrange was a poor man and people asked him Why?
His answer was classic ” IF I was rich, I would not have devoted my whole life to Mathematics” !
In VIkramorvasheeya, Kalidasa prays that the warring sisters, Saraswathi & Lakshmi, should be united in one man, paraspara virodhinyo eka samsraya durlabham ……………………….
SO was Keats ” I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed “
Except for Bacon and Goethe, most of the other intellectuals were poor.
In Kerala, once a King wanted to cross the river. While crossing , he told the catamaran driver to sing a Kili pattu, a song. The intelligent man sang the Kuchela Vrittam, as he was suffering from abject poverty. The benevolent King understood what it meant and gave a big mansion and good amount of money to him, just as the Lord had given Kuchela.
Vichitra Roopa stava khalu Anugraha ! How strange is Thy Grace !
