The Indian ClerkThe Indian Clerk
a Novel
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Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, 1st U.S. ed, All copies in use.Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, 1st U.S. ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsIn 1913, the eccentric G. H. Hardy, Britain's leading mathematician, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius, Indian clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan, and sets out to persuade the enigmatic Ramanujan to come to Cambridge.
In 1913, the eccentric and charismatic G. H. Hardy, Britain's leading mathematician, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius, Indian clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan, who claims to be on the verge of solving the most important unsolved mathematical puzzle of the age, and sets out to persuade the enigmatic Ramanujan to come to Cambridge, in a novel based on a real-life incident. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
In 1913, the eccentric and charismatic G. H. Hardy, Britain's leading mathematician, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius, Indian clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan, who claims to be on the verge of solving the most important unsolved mathematical puzzle of the age, and sets out to persuade the enigmatic Ramanujan to come to Cambridge, in a novel based on a real-life incident. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four bestseller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country.
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- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
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