The Man Who Knew Infinity
A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled.With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-14059-9
- EAN: 9780349140599
- Produktnummer: 22601099
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'678 KB
- Abbildungen: Section: 8, Int b&w
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Robert Kanigel
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