“The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Part One)

    ***   I first read about Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) back when I was in eighth or ninth grade, probably either in James R. Newman’s four-volume The World of Mathematics or in E. T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics.  (These are, incidentally, the books that initially sent me to the university as a mathematics major.)  […]