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I read the new york times article. I get the feeling that it draws too much attention to the personal, emotional relationships of Hardy, Ramanujan and others an
by jyothi 19y ago
I read the new york times article. I get the feeling that it draws too much attention to the personal, emotional relationships of Hardy, Ramanujan and others and dilutes the genius each one of them were. It definitely would be a good read once you are through with the brief introduction into their professional lives.
I myself being too obsessed with mathematics loved this biography of Ramanujan - The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. ISBN:0671750615
- paul_reiners 19y agoI agree with you that it does draw a lot of attention to the personal, emotional relationships of Hardy, Ramanujan, Littlewood, and so on. But, for someone who has already read and loved "A Mathematician's Apology" and studied math in college, reading about these personalities can be quite fascinating. Of course, since this is a novel, it's hard to say what is surmise, what is fact, and what is invented. I never was able to find much biographical material on Hardy (I was only able to find 2 pictures of him (this was in the 80s before Google)). I need to read the book on Ramanujan you mentioned, though.