Shrew
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She was the family deity of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest mathematicans of all times.
She appeared to him in dreams and made him discover mathematical formulas.
sourceWhile asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.