Charts
For authors

Loading this book…

A social home for readers and authors. Discover stories, build a community, and manage every launch from one place.

Closed beta · Free for readers

Apps for iOS and Android are on the way.

Read

Explore books
Authors
Charts

Publish

For authors
Plans & pricing
Join free

Company

Help center
Community guidelines
Privacy
Terms

Language

Color mode

The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel · Booklabria

Explore books
Robert Kanigel
The Man Who Knew Infinity

BiographyEngland

The Man Who Knew Infinity

by Robert KanigelNot on Booklabria yet

No ratings on Booklabria yet·Be the first to rate it

Want to read this?

Join free to shelve it and hear when an author offers free copies.

Join free

No one on Booklabria has shelved this yet.

First published: 1991
Editions: 21 in 2 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Biography
England
Mathematics
India
Mathematicians
India, biography
Set in: Great Britain
India
Characters: G. H. Hardy
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar

Content notes

No content warnings recorded yet. Catalogue records don't include them, which doesn't mean the book has none.

More by Robert Kanigel

All books

The One Best Way
1997

Related bookssharing subjects with this book

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Paul Hoffman

God Created the Integers

Stephen Hawking

Love and Math

Edward Frenkel

A Man for All Markets

Edward O. Thorp

Prisoner's dilemma

William Poundstone

A mind at play

Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman

The man who knew too much

David Leavitt

Perfect rigor

Masha Gessen

Genius at Play

Siobhan Roberts

The imitation game

Jim Ottaviani

The Bride of Science

Benjamin Woolley

King of Infinite Space

Siobhan Roberts

Reviews

No reviews on Booklabria yet. The first one starts the conversation here.

Book data and covers from Open Library (openlibrary.org).

Editions

21 in 2 languages

See all editions ›

English15 German5

The most complete records first.

See all 15 English editions

Editions and their details come from Open Library, as its contributors recorded them. Publisher names are shown as recorded. See this book on Open Library(opens Open Library)