The Man Who Knew Infinity: Film tie-in - Brossura

Kanigel, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349142408 ISBN 13: 9780349142401

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, 2016

Riassunto

In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled.

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'. In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two and left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today.

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Recensione

It is a magic, tragic ugly-duckling fable that Robert Kanigel tells in The Man Who Knew Infinity... In it, a greatly gifted man is born to a culture that doesn't understand what the man is about. Still, his talent blossoms until news of it spreads to the other side of the world, where he is eventually summoned by the masters of his skill. The man goes among them and performs his magic. Skepticism gives way to wonder. But away from home, the man grows lonely and ill. He returns to his birthplace, only to die. (New York Times)

An exquisite portrait...the rarest of literary achievements...Ramanujan's tale is the stuff of fable (Los Angeles Times)

An exciting and thoughtful book... should catch the imagination of any reader - even the reader with little mathematical background (Independent)

This is a fine example of a work of popularising mathematics, and deserves a wide readership. (New Scientist)

Descrizione del libro

* 'One of the finest, best-documented biographies ever published about a modern mathematician' - Martin Gardner

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0349142408
• ISBN 13: 9780349142401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile