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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a biography of Ramanujan, the Indian genius mathematician.<br/><br/>It's difficult to avoid finding Ramanujan fascinating, even if you have no interest in math.  He was born poor in India in 1887, and showed an incredible natural talent for math -- including theoretical as well as ari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57860513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent biography of this enigmatic mathematician.  The book thoroughly explores the life and times of Ramanujan, and helps dispel the 'idiot savant' disreputation that had existed in certain quarters.  Here the author firmly roots Ramanujan's early life and his gift for mathematical thinking t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1909863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a biography of the self-taught Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Ramanujan was a number theorist par excellence. Many of the results that he defined in his famous 'Ramanujan's notebook' were analyzed many decades after his death and proved by mathematicians interested in the su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1615943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the three major non-academic mathematician biographies i haven't read, along with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714583.The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers_The_Story_of_Paul_Erd_s_and_the_Search_for_Mathematical_Truth" title="The Man Who Loved Only Numbers  The Story of  Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman">the man who only loved numbers</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince_Book_6_" title="Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling">turing: the enigma</a>. hopefully i'll get to all three this summer.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54332006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up on vacation in Europe when I ran out of my books and started reading my computer geek husband's books.  Although I love biographies, I would not have chosen this biography of an Indian mathematician.  However, the book was fascinating-- both as a window into this amazing genius as w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65633150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely well researched, very well written. This is a story that can so easily spiral into an East vs West mess.<br/><br/>I say this because I was unlucky enought to read &quot;An Indian Clerk&quot; by David Leavitt. He says that this is fictionalized: the only thing recognizable is the names of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15540837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book often hares after such things as colonialism and the Tripos at Cambridge.  Not saying those things aren't relevant, but they don't really discuss the work of Ramanujan, or present struggles to finish editing and 'translating' the notebooks.  I would've liked more of that, and less about th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52359890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this book in high school.  We love genius, and there are few mathematical geniuses like Ramanujan.  Kanigel's work is a great biography of a very unusual mathematician, his collaborations with Littlewood and Hardy, and a little of his mathematics.  <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this when it first came out. Reskimming. Excellent bio, but perhaps not enough technical material for mathematically-minded readers. Lots of strong material on G. H. Hardy, as well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding bio.  One of the most interesting mathematicians who ever lived.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book about a self-taught genius in number theory. It also contains a lot of background on Hardy, the English mathematician who discovered Ramanujan. This book had a profound impact on me. I got into a lot of numer theory after reading it. If you like this biography, you should check out <strong>Re...</strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5345827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[both hardy and ramanujun are badasses.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm...I like biographies and I am intrigued by math but I did not find his story interesting.  Everyone else seems to have liked it and I'm left wondering what I missed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm definitely a little obsessed with G. H. Hardy and Ramanujan now.  This was a great introduction to Ramanujan's life and times.  It was also (inevitably) a bummer.<br/><br/>Somehow I wasn't totally satisfied; maybe it's that it was so clearly a journalistic account and I would have wanted somethi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10626076">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There have been other books on Ramanujan that are romanticized.  This book is journalistic (hence, a bit dry) and attempts to stick with the facts.  One learns a lot about the life and times of Ramanujan in Southern India, G.H. Hardy, Trinity College Cambridge, and the extraordinary events that brou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11777962">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, this a double autobiography of both Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy.  Interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book because I wanted to read about something beyond my comprehension.  Ramanujan came from nothing and revolutionized mathematics and his is a unique story.  At times, however, the book is too detail-oriented, but it paints a broad picture.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please read my comments about this book in my blog.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kininaren.wordpress.com">http://kininaren.wordpress.com</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a few pages in. It's going to be a good one.]]></body>
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