The Man Who Knew Infinity

By Robert Kanigel

Subjects: Mathematicians, biography, Biography, Mathematicians -- India -- Biography, England, Ramanujan, Aiyangar Srinivasa, 1887-1920, Ramanujan, aiyangar, srinivasa, 1887-1920, India, biography, Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920, Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947, Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947, India, Mathematicians, Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography

Description: A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.