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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Robert Kanigel

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.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Ramanujan, Aiyangar Srinivasa, 1887-1920 -> BiographyScientific Biography

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor1991FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1991FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Srinivasa Ramanujan92%
    • G. H. Hardy70%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.