In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G.H. Hardy,
begging the pre-emi nent English mathematician's opinion on several
ideas he had about n u m bers. Realizing the letter was the work of a
genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England.
Thus began one of the most i mprobable and prod u ctive collaborations
ever chronicled...
With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us
from the tem ples and teeming slums of Madras to the courts and chapels
of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince
of Intuition," tested his brill iant theories alongside the
sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of Proof." In time,
Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of
thirty-two and left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still
being plumbed for its secrets today.

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