Sunday, May 4, 2008

The man who knew infinity

The man who knew infinity is a biography of Ramanujan, the famous Indian mathematician. It is not a book on mathematics but a few works of Ramanujan is explained well so that anybody with a high school math background can follow. The book has three parts to it- an account on Ramanujan life in India before he left to Cambridge, his life in Cambridge and his final years where he battles with an illness that untimely took his life and difficult mathematics theories simultaneously. It is a truly divine experience to read how his extra ordinary mind worked. A good book for mathematically inclined young adults.