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Published March 8, 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
Man Who Knew Infinity
Robert Kanigel: Man Who Knew Infinity (2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
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- 978-0-349-14059-9
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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
- Hardy, g. h. (godfrey harold), 1877-1947
- Mathematicians, biography
- India, biography
- Great britain, biography