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Il matematico indiano

By David Leavitt, Delfina Vezzoli (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9788804580034

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Cambridge, 1923. G.H. Hardy è considerato, nonostante i suoi trentacinque anni, uno dei più brillanti matematici del suo tempo. Un giorno, però, riceve una lettera da un anonimo impiegato indiano, il quale dichiara di aver risolto un importante e complesso problema matematico che lo stesso Hardy citContinue

Cambridge, 1923. G.H. Hardy è considerato, nonostante i suoi trentacinque anni, uno dei più brillanti matematici del suo tempo. Un giorno, però, riceve una lettera da un anonimo impiegato indiano, il quale dichiara di aver risolto un importante e complesso problema matematico che lo stesso Hardy cita in un suo scritto, senza saperne offrire una soluzione. Inizialmente perplesso, Hardy decide però di sfruttare l'occasione del viaggio in India di alcuni amici per conoscere Srinivasa Ramanujan, il misterioso impiegato, e scoprire se si tratta di un vero genio matematico o di un impostore. Troverà, al suo arrivo, un giovane che, pur avendo fallito in ogni tipo di studio, ha un talento assoluto per il calcolo. Tra Hardy e Ramanujan comincerà così un rapporto quasi simbiotico, di collaborazione nella ricerca ma anche di amore, incredibilmente fruttuoso ma destinato a risolversi in modo drammatico, con la presa di coscienza da parte del giovane indiano della propria identità e il conseguente esaurimento del rapporto di reciproco bisogno tra i due studiosi.

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  • Il matematico indiano

    La trama e le recensioni di Il matematico indiano, romanzo di David Leavitt. Ad appena 37 anni, G.H. Hardy è considerato uno dei più promettenti matematici del suo tempo. Una mattina di gennaio del 1913 il brillante studioso, ormai cattedratico a Cam ... (read full critics)

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  • Un giorno finirò anche te e allora saprò perché gli accademici sono tutti gay.

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  • Singolare.

    [THE INDIAN CLERK, by DAVID LEAVITT - REVIEW]
    The Indian Clerk is an interesting and intriguing historical novel by David Leavitt, published in 2007: that kind of really difficult historical novel where some of the literary characters are people who really existed in the time and places ... (continue)

    Singolare.

    [THE INDIAN CLERK, by DAVID LEAVITT - REVIEW]
    The Indian Clerk is an interesting and intriguing historical novel by David Leavitt, published in 2007: that kind of really difficult historical novel where some of the literary characters are people who really existed in the time and places in which the book is set.
    In this instance, we are in Cambridge in 1913 with the well-known mathematician G.H. Hardy (“Harold” for a few friends)– born in 1877, one of the most esteemed in the world at that time – at the very moment he receives a letter from an unknown Indian accounts clerk working in a colonial office in Madras, ten years younger than him, who claims to be about to solve the Riemann Hypotesis, one of the most complex mathematical problems, which Hardy has been studying strenuously for a long time.
    Neither of them know yet, but the letter is going to change profoundly their lives.

    Srinivasa Ramanujan in fact was a naturally talented mathematician who just needed someone able to recognize his genius: that man is Hardy, who managed to invite him officially to Cambridge.
    The human relationship between the two “beautiful minds” is complex and maybe ambiguous, because of Hardy’s never publicly stated homosexuality.
    The “Indoo calculator” (as he was called in Cambridge) is the son of a very different and faraway civilisation and for Hardy it’s easier to talk to the ghost of his lover who committed suicide (probably because of the pain caused by the affair with Hardy himself). Soon the First World War breaks out, blocking Ramanujan in England without his favourite vegetarian foods and spices, compelled to wear western clothes and above all shoes and far from his teen-wife: he soon fell ill.

    Around the Indian self-taught man and the English don there are many characters, both historical - such as Hardy’s assistant Littlewood, Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, the great novelist Lawrence (who thinks and says to Hardy that homosexuals are horrible people who make him think of black beetles) - and fictional, and in some cases you can’t tell what is true story and what is recreated by the writer: an example is Hardy’s disfigured sister (she lost an eye).
    It’s a remarkable book about the separate and metaphysical world of mathematics, about the mystery of human relationships and about the dream of an international community of scientists, intellectuals and artists: it’s very hard to put it down.

    Ilaria M.P. Barzaghi

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