The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Author: Robert Kanigel
The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into two – the effect is said to be like Dr Watson in the train of some argument….Read More
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