Title: The Indian clerk
First published: 2008
Description: 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.
Subjects: Mathe maticiens, Fiction, Romans, Roman biographique, Mathematicians, Mathématiciens, Fiction, general, Scientists, fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, LGBTQ historical fiction, Stonewall Book Awards, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, biographical, India, fiction, Great britain, fiction
People: G. H. Hardy (1877-1947), Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (1887-1920)
LC classification: PS