A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel
Recommended by Paul Graham and Sophie Bakalar
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Soon to be a major motion picture, the story of one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled, between a young unschooled Indian prodigy and a great English mathematician.In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had abo...
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