Il matematico indiano

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• Il matematico indiano

  Srinivasa Ramanujan è un semplice impiegato indiano con la passione per la matematica. Nel 1913 il giovane scrive una lettera al grande matematico G. H. Hardy, sottoponendogli alcuni dei suoi studi da perfetto autodidatta. Hardy ne intuisce immediata ... (read full critics)

  mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

• 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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  [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)

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  [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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• Libri Italiani
• Mass Market Paperback 593 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 8804589701
• ISBN-13: 9788804589709
• Publisher: Oscar Contemporanea
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
• Also available as: Hardcover
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