NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL! A moving and enlightening look
at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of
Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics. In 1913 a young unschooled Indian clerk
wrote a letter to G H Hardy begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several
ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius Hardy arranged for
Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive
collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich and evocative detail Robert Kanigel
takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University
where the devout Hindu Ramanujan the Prince of Intuition tested his brilliant theories
alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy the Apostle of Proof. In time Ramanujan's
creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two but left behind a magical
and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today.
