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2023-07-30 12:10:21 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The reason most of his results remained not proven for so long is that his notes did not contain the proofs: "Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of looseleaf paper. They were mostly written up without any derivations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-frontline-8:~:text=Ramanujan%20recorded%20the%20bulk%20of%20his%20results%20in%20four%20notebooks%20of%20looseleaf%20paper.%20They%20were%20mostly%20written%20up%20without%20any%20derivations.

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• The reason most of his results remained not proven for so long is that his notes did not contain the proofs: "Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of looseleaf paper. They were mostly written up without any derivations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-frontline-8:~:text=Ramanujan%20recorded%20the%20bulk%20of%20his%20results%20in%20four%20notebooks%20of%20looseleaf%20paper.%20They%20were%20mostly%20written%20up%20without%20any%20derivations.