Math Mystery Unlocked.

The article reports a breakthrough in understanding of mathematics' "mock theta functions." Since they were first referred to by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1920, number theorists have struggled to understand these numerical expressions. In 2007, mathematicians Ken Ono and Kathrin Bringmann, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, succeeded in using modern mathematical techniques to create an explanatory framework for mock theta functions and how to derive them.