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The Man Who Knew Infinity
- 438 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1991
- 21 editions
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1 About this book
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.
Good for readers who want: a true life story and mathematics.
- Mathematicians
- Biography
- India
- India, biography
- Mathematics
- England
2 About Robert Kanigel
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