THE INDIAN CLERK. BLOOMSBURY, On a January morning in , G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic, and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age—receives in the mail 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 finding a solution to . Based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown―and unschooled―mathematical genius, and populated with Cited by: 7. Full marks to David Leavitt for writing a novel about mathematics and mathematicians that is so readable. The research is impressive and the writing is very accessible. The "Indian clerk" is a self-taught mathematical genius with very little formal education who, despite all his disadvantages, succeeds in interesting a leading Cambridge mathematician, G.H. Hardy, in his ideas/5.
The Indian Clerk. David Leavitt. Bloomsbury Publishing, -. "The Indian Clerk," David Leavitt's richly imagined seventh novel, is such a book, and for several reasons Leavitt is brave to attempt it. "The Indian Clerk" is loosely structured around. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such.
Based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown - and unschooled - mathematical genius, and populated with such luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk fashions from this fascinating period an exquisitely nuanced and utterly compelling story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. THE INDIAN CLERK. BLOOMSBURY, On a January morning in , G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic, and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age—receives in the mail 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 finding a solution to the Riemann Hypothesis, the most important unsolved mathematical problem of all time. Just like his earlier novel While England Sleeps (), which is set against the rise of fascism in Europe in the ’s, David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk takes actual people and makes them.
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