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This is a review of Robert Kanigel’s highly influential biography on Srinivasa Ramanujan, the first detailed account of his most remarkable life.
This article is a review of the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, by Robert Kanigel, Charles Scribner’s, New York, 1991. A slightly modified version of this review appeared in The American Scientist, Vol. 80, pp. 388–389 (1992).
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Alladi, K. (2021). The Discovery and Rediscovery of Mathematical Genius—A Review of “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”. In: Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6241-9_21
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