![]() ![]() He came from a poor family in an obscure village outside of the South Indian capital of Madras. The book begins in South India where Ramanujan was born and lived most of his life. For several years, their collaborations at Cambridge produced mathematical research that is still be mined today for interesting results. Ramanujan was a genius, but it took Hardy to recognize and bring the young man to England. Hardy, was the most respected English mathematician of his day and the product of the best schools in England. Yet he had only the most bare education in backwaters of South India. ![]() One of these men, Ramanujan was a genius of unusual strength who would go on to develop some of the most interesting mathematical conjectures and theorems of the century, if not of all time. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a book about two important mathematicians, their relationship, and how it shaped their lived and the world around them. ![]()
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