SAT OwlMathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan had almost no formal training in advanced mathematics, and many of the results he mailed to British mathematicians in 1913 were presented without proofs. ______ G. H. Hardy, a professor at the University of Cambridge, recognized the brilliance of Ramanujan's work and invited him to England.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Nonetheless,
Accordingly,
In other words,
Likewise,
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Answer: A
Ramanujan's lack of training and missing proofs might have led experts to dismiss him. Hardy recognized his brilliance anyway. "Nonetheless" signals that something happened despite the circumstances just described. "Accordingly" would wrongly suggest that Hardy invited Ramanujan because of those shortcomings.
"Accordingly" makes the invitation sound like a natural result of Ramanujan's lack of training, which reverses the logic.
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