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

Publication: The New Yorker

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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...

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