His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two, but left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today. Robert Kanigel is the author of six previous books. With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince of Intuition," tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of Proof." Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. 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 about numbers. THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is an accessible look at an almost romantic episode in the enormously rich intellec- tual world of mathematics. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!Ī moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics.
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