How Heureka moments announce themselves

Crucial ideas for solving complex problems sometimes appear in the form of flashes of inspiration. But do such aha moments actually come out of nowhere? Video recordings by six mathematicians who climb on the board of challenging mathematical problems show that their behavior is subtle in the minutes before a breakthrough

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