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<p>with A Passion For Detail, Robert Kanigel Takes Us From To The Slums Of Madras To The Courts Of Cambridge University Where Srinivasa Ramanujan, A Young Unschooled Indian Clerk, Tested His Brilliant Theories Alongside G.h. Hardy, The Great English Mathematician. Ramanujan Died At The Age Of Thirty-two, But He Left Behind A Magical And Inspired Legacy That Is Still Being Plumbed For Its Secrets Today.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>this Moving And Astonishing Biography Tells The Improbable Story Of India-born Srinavasa Ramanujan Iyengar, Self-taught Mathematical Prodigy. In 1913 Ramanujan, A 25-year-old Clerk Who Had Flunked Out Of Two Colleges, Wrote A Letter Filled With Startlingly Original Theorems To Eminent English Mathematician G. H. Hardy. Struck By The Indian's Genius, Hardy, Member Of The Cambridge Apostles And An Obsessive Cricket Aficionado, Brought Ramanujan To England. Over The Next Five Years, The Vegetarian Brahmin Who Claimed His Discoveries Were Revealed To Him By A Hindu Goddess Turned Out Influential Mathematical Propositions. Cut Off From His Young Indian Wife Left At Home And Emotionally Neglected By Fatherly Yet Aloof Hardy, Ramanujan Returned To India In

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Author

Kanigel, Robert, Kanigel, Robert

Publisher

New York: Washington Square Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671750619

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.14 / 5 (240 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14