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The Indian Clerk.(Brief article)(Book review)

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This melancholy novel, set in Cambridge around the start of the First World War, focusses on the real-life partnership between the British mathematician G. H. Hardy and his Indian protege Ramanujan. Hardy, astonished by the genius of Ramanujan--who, largely unschooled, writes rudimentary proofs that are brilliant even in their mistakes--campaigns to have him brought to England on a scholarship, and then pushes him toward solving the infamous ...

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