438 pages
English language
Published March 8, 1992 by Washington Square Press.
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A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Subjects
- Ramanujan, Aiyangar Srinivasa, 1887-1920.
- Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947.
- Mathematicians -- India -- Biography.
- Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.