A Product of the Human Mind

Are theories of music harmony psychological?

Why couldn't Ramanujan hold an ordinary job in 1913?

Because he was secretly a mathematical genius.

While navigating around family pressures and battling sickness for years, Ramanujan dove into the depths of mathematical reality both in his journals and in his dreams. At the encouragement of his friends, Ramanujan sent his original work to G. H. Hardy, a British mathematician at Cambridge University. Hardy was so impressed by his work that he arranged transportation for Ramanujan from where he resided in Madras on the eastern shore of India to Cambridge, to have him formally trained in mathematics.

The traditionalists at Cambridge could not contain Ramanujan's genius. No one, not even Ramanujan, could fully explain how he got to his remarkable results. Undoubtedly, he was able to see patterns that went far beyond logical and rationalist ways of thinking. His dreams were signals from an embodied source of mathematical knowledge, accessed through multiple ways of knowing that involved his …