Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work G. H. Hardy
Publisher: Ams Chelsea Pub.
Here are a couple of paragraphs, from immediately after G.H. I read Robert Kanigel's "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" in '93, two years after it came out. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler's identity independently. Retrieved August 12, 2007, from the World Wide Web http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/BBhistory.html. He demonstrated unusual He joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research, working as a clerk in the Accountant-General's office at the Madras Port Trust Office to support himself. Hardy receives his first letter from Ramanujan in Madras, with several pages of groundbreaking mathematical proofs attached: At first glance, the complex array of numbers, letters, and symbols suggests a passing familiarity with, if not a fluency in, the language of his discipline. 3 (Lecture I) of the collection "Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work". Read their book, "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (AMS Chelsea Publishing)" 1999. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. Page 17 of that book states that an estimated chess games are 10^10^50. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by his Life and Work.