Ep 35 Ch 14 "Why are Flowers Beautiful?"
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Ramanajan is held up often as the exception to this rule of being able to understand if only you tried hard enough. He's supposedly someone who simply was able to write down theorems without proof. Ramanajan had to learn how to do proofs himself, and that was what Hardy was doing. The way in which Ramanajans did mathematics must have been done in his mind somehow. We know it had to be a conjecture and refutation. But precisely what the method was, because it wasn't a standard method of proof, was for him not able to be explained to anyone else.
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