Person Who Knows No Bounds: The Story of Ramanujan

Author: Robert Kanigel
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: A young Indian clerk without a formal education, Ramanujan, wrote to the renowned British mathematician G.H. Hardy in 1913, asking the scholar for his opinion on several of his mathematical ideas. Hardy recognized the letter as coming from a genius and devised a way to bring Ramanujan to England. Thus began a historically rare and fruitful collaboration.
With great enthusiasm for the rich and engaging details, the author guides us from the temples and slums of Madras, India, to the courtyards and churches of Cambridge University in England. There, the devout Hindu "Prince of Intuition," Ramanujan, worked alongside the rigorous and eccentric "Apostle of Proof," Hardy, to verify his brilliant theories. Ramanujan's intense creative contributions came at a cost: he died at the young age of 33, leaving behind a mesmerizing and profound mathematical legacy that continues to be explored to this day.
This book is one of America's bestselling books and was awarded the 1992 "American Book Review Biography Award."