With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, 'the Prince of Intuition,' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, 'the Apostle of Proof'. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England.
In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H.
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