Could the key to how good we are at maths be hidden in our brains?
In a scene from The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), a biopic of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, G.H. Hardy (played by Jeremy Irons) asks Ramanujan (Dev Patel), “How did you know that theorem?” “It came to me,” Ramanujan says. The scene brought to life a famous aspect of Ramanujan’s mathematical prowess: he just knew the…
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