Kanigel, Robert

The life story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an improvished Indian clerk, and his collaboration with H. Hardy, an English mathematician.

Maps on endpapers.

Contains reviews of eighty fiction and non-fiction works, none published later than the early 1960s, divided into nine categories including literary classics, books that shaped the Western world, one-of-a-kinds, and the realm of the spirit.