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On a January morning in 1913, G.H.Hardy-eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age-receives 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 bring of solving the most important unsolved mathematical problem of his time. Some of his Cambridge colleagues dismiss the letter as a hoax, but Hardy becomes convinced that the India clerk who has written it -Srinivasa Ramanujan-deserves to be taken seriously.
He determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan and, if possible, persuade him to come to Cambridge. It is a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics.
Based on the remarkable truth 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, Bertand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk fashions from this fascinating period an exquisitely nuanced and utterly compelling story about the fragility of human relationships and our need to find order in the world.
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