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Earlier this year, a trio of mathematicians decided to make lemons into lemonade — and ended up making major headway on a problem that mathematicians have been thinking about for centuries.

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An early understanding of numbers may be a sign of mathematical ability. Oksana Kuzmina The film The Man Who Knew Infinity tells the gripping story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an exceptionally talented, ...