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Description edit
A biography of the Ramanujan describes how the natural genius of an unschooled Indian clerk came to the attention of a preeminent mathematician and the world. Reprint.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: Mathematical genius
- G. H. Hardy: Mathematician
- Littlewood: Add a description of this character.
- Narayana Iyer
- E. H. Neville
- Komalatammal
- Carr
- Ramachandra Rao
- Kumbakonam
- Janaki
- Francis
- Bertrand Russell
- Watson
- Namagiri
- Harold
- Ramalingam
- Matlock
- Lakshmi Narasimhan
- Chatterji
- Baker
- Walker
- Macmahon
- Leonard Woolf
- Jacobi
- C. P. Snow
- Anantharaman
- Davies
- Hobson
- Mahalanobis
- George Andrews
- Vishnu
- Ramaswami Iyer
- Seshu Iyer
- Griffith
- Whewell
- Jackson
- Narayanan
- Subramanian
- Abel
- Gertrude
- Gandhi
Setting & Locations edit
- South India
- Cambridge
- Madras
- England
- London
- Winchester
- Europe
- Britain
- Cranleigh
- France
- Cauvery
- Bombay
- Pachaiyappa
- Trinity
- Triplicane
- Germany
- Dewsbury
- Nevasa
- Hinduism
- America
- Namakkal
- Ceylon
- Louvain
- Calcutta
- Rajendram
- Town High School
- Ramannjan
- Ramantijan
- Bromwich
- India Office
- Ragami
- Denmark
- Belgium
- Hall
- Eton
- Kanchipuram
- Heaven
- High Table
- Rameswaram
- Harrow
- Chetput
- Jordan
- Vizagapatnam
First Sentence edit
He heard it all his life-the slow, measured thwap . . . thwap . . . thwap . . . of wet clothes being pounded clean on rocks jutting up from the waters of the Cauvery River.
Table of Contents edit
I In the Temples's Coolness
II Ranging with Delight
III The Search for Patrons
IV Hardy
V "I Beg to Introduce Myself..."
VI Ramanujan's Spring
VII The English Chill
VIII "In Somewhat Indifferent Health"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Kanigel (Author)
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1991: Biography/Autobiography)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 510.92
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