5 ms·
A nice read. I love reading about maths, just not doing it.
by zandorg 17y ago
A nice read. I love reading about maths, just not doing it.
- gustavo_duarte 17y agoTry reading A Journey Through Genius: http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathematics/dp/014014739X/ http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathem... The read part is _great_, and it gets you to do math in a way that flows pretty easily from the reading.
- jyothi 17y agoI read "The Man Who Knew Infinity" - Ramanujan's biography and it was fantastic read. http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/0684192594 http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/068... Do check out recommendations by Amazon, seems like a great set of books.
- luckystrike 17y agoYes, it is a good read. Also, it was a good insight for me in to South Indian living/culture of those days.
- bitdiddle 17y agoThis was a great book. The story about the taxi cab number 1729 was staggering to me in what it implied about how Ramanujan's mind worked. It was also profoundly sad that because the little formal exposure he had was from a book where there were no proofs he thought that one merely stated results. Many PhDs have since been awarded for proofs of some of these results.