The Indian clerk : a novel / David Leavitt
- Bib ID:
- 4353193
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Leavitt, David, 1961-
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- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007
- 485 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781596910409
- 1596910402
- Summary:
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"On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic, and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives in the mail a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important unsolved mathematical problem of all time. Some of his Cambridge colleagues dismiss the letter as a hoax, but Hardy is convinced that the Indian clerk who wrote it, Srinivasa Ramanujan, deserves to be taken seriously. Aided by his collaborator, Littlewood, and a young don named Neville who is about to depart for Madras with his wife, Alice, Hardy determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan and, if possible, persuade him to come to Cambridge. It is a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life and the lives of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics." "Based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown - and unschooled - mathematical genius, and populated with luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this slice of history and transforms it into a story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject:
- Mathematicians -- Fiction
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