"When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine."

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Ken Ono

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Ken Ono is a prominent mathematician known for his groundbreaking work in number theory and partition functions, blending creativity with mathematical rigor.

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