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By Ken Ono

"The son of a admired jap mathematician who got here to the U.S. after global warfare II, Ken Ono was once raised on a vitamin of excessive expectancies and little compliment. Rebelling opposed to his pressure-cooker of a existence, Ken made up our minds to drop out of highschool to persist with his personal course. to procure his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the recognized Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom his father respected, who had two times flunked out of faculty as a result of his single-minded devotion to mathematics.

Ono describes his rocky direction via university and graduate university, interweaving Ramanujan’s tale together with his personal and telling how at key moments, he was once encouraged through Ramanujan and guided via mentors who inspired him to pursue his curiosity in exploring Ramanujan’s mathematical legacy.

Picking up the place others left off, starting with the nice English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who introduced Ramanujan to Cambridge in 1914, Ono has dedicated his mathematical occupation to realizing how in his brief lifestyles, Ramanujan used to be in a position to realize such a lot of deep mathematical truths, which Ramanujan believed were despatched to him as visions from a Hindu goddess. And it was once Ramanujan who used to be eventually the resource of reconciliation among Ono and his parents.

Ono’s look for Ramanujan levels over 3 continents and crosses paths with mathematicians whose lives span the globe and the total 20th century and past. alongside the way in which, Ken made many desirable discoveries. an important and marvelous one among all used to be his personal humanity."

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