Full name: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Author: Robert Kanigel Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780349104522 9781476763491 0349104522 1476763496

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 by Sherlock Holmes. The language of symbols and infinitely large (and small) regions of mathematics should be rendered with clarity for the general reader. Similar books: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter Men Of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen The Man of Numbers by Keith Devlin Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy The Artist and the Mathematician by Amir D. Aczel Nothing Stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoe Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire Blockhead by Joseph D'Agnese Poincare's Prize by George G. Szpiro A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar The Fractalist by Benoit Mandelbrot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Genius by James Gleick