the man who knew infinity book by robert kanigel

It preaches that the world is both ordered and disordered, and man is both bound and free.

It neither declines the Newtonian clockwork model completely nor promotes the quantum indeterministic model entirely. The middle ground chaos theory secures among other gigantic scientific theories to describe the world has brought it to the fore lately. Could Hardy help him? And Hardy said yes. Then Ramanujan wrote to still another mathematician, G. Hobson, returned Ramanujan’s papers without comment.

Finally with the help of his friends, Ramanujan wrote to British mathematicians expecting better audience from them. He became so poor that he had no paper to work on and would do all his math on a slate, only write down the results in paper. But who would give him a job? His work was of no value, lest to say incomprehensible to Indian mathematicians. He had to earn a living to sustain his family. Being a married person, his parent’s and wife’s responsibility fell on him. His mother and wife had to feed him while he carried out his passion. He would forget his meals, his sleep in pursuit of math. Day and night he would do nothing but math. As a result, he could not get any ‘certificate’ education beyond school. He enrolled in other colleges but again he excelled in maths but failed most others. As a result he failed in most and lost his scholarship. But at college he lost interest in all subjects except Mathematics. He received a scholarship for college education. When he passed out, his headmaster introduced him as an outstanding student who deserved scores higher than the maximum possible marks. Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar came from a poor orthodox Brahmin family in Madras.

The man who knew infinity book by robert kanigel