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The Indian Clerk

By David Leavitt

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| Paperback | 9780747596325

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January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solvingContinue

January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about this mysterious Indian clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, and populated with such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, "The Indian Clerk" fashions from this fascinating period an utterly compelling story about our need to find order in the world.

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  • Adding up to a life

    The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt 485pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 Dextrously wrought, deviously researched, juddering to a halt a whisker short of its 500th closely printed page, The Indian Clerk is the latest adornment of an increasingly fashionable liter ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Indian Clerk

    In 1913, the eminent mathematician GH Hardy received a grubby, unsolicited envelope covered in foreign stamps that contained a letter of introduction and a sheaf of idiosyncratic, occasionally incomprehensible equations. It was from Srinivasa Ramanuj ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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