From the article: Ramanujan's results were (as Hardy put it) "arrived at by a process of mingled argument, intuition, and induction, of which he was entirely u

From the article: Ramanujan's results were (as Hardy put it) "arrived at by a process of mingled argument, intuition, and induction, of which he was entirely unable to give any coherent account". We can only marvel at (1) the human brain, the workings of which we know so little (as recent events in Newtown tragically reminded us in a very different way); and (2) mathematics, with which such a brain was able somehow to interact so fruitfully.