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The Indian Clerk

The Indian Clerk A Novel

David Leavitt — 2007
In 1913, the eccentric G. H. Hardy, Britain's leading mathematician, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius, Indian clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan, and sets out to persuade the enigmatic Ramanujan to come to Cambridge.
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Tracey O’Rourke@simiavus
3 stars
Jan 9, 2022

This book took me forever to read, even though I mostly like it. I started it on at least 4 different occasions, never getting past page 20 or so. Once I really got reading, I still read several other books while reading this. This is not to say this isn't good. It is good. But its about mathemeticians. And around WWI, and it simply takes some work.