Misc: Ramanujan (IN AtD)...review from an industry newletter

[Mark Kohut]

The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (Bloomsbury, $24.95, 9781596910409/1596910402). "Paul Erdos once asked G.H. Hardy, the noted 20th century British mathematician, to name his greatest contribution to their field. Hardy unhesitatingly replied that it was the 'discovery' of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the great mathematical geniuses in recent centuries. Across the chasm created by color, nationality, education, language, and colonialism, they spoke to each other in the language of pure numbers. Their collaboration plays out in this novel of intellectual history against the clubby atmosphere of British academics, homosexuality, food, and, finally, WWI."--Chris Stier, Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, Mich.


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