Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

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Eyes on the Street," his biography of Jane Jacobs, the far-seeing author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" and fearless champion of big-city life, was published by Knopf in 2016. I do share your criticism of not exploring the racism faced by Ramanujan, and this is a topic that is not explored in multiple sources, including Ramanujan The Man And The Mathematician by B Krishnayya, the only other proper biography I could find. Reprints must, in my opinion, contain a section towards the end of the book that is dedicated to exploring not only the personal prejudice endured by Ramanujan but the cultural and economical impact colonisation had on the country and her people, which is ironically not even touched upon in our education. While I did not find “...one Indian biographer noted”, he did mention “but as one biographer noted ”without the race that does not clear his faults but changes the impact of the sentence. The biographer should have been mentioned by name as opposed to a vague pointer. Ramanujan's work grants direct pleasure to only a few - a few hundred mathematicians and physicists around the world, perhaps a few thousand. The rest of us must either sit on the sidelines, and, on the authority of the cognoscenti, cheer - or else rely on vague, metaphoric, and necessarily imprecise glimpses of his work.The other important part about this book is the way the relationship between Ramanujan and his mentor Godfred Harold Hardy has been elaborated. The importance of having a mentor at a critical juncture in life and how it leads someone to achieve his true potential has been beautifully brought out. It is as if this relation was meant to be – else why would only Hardy respond to Ramanujan’s letters when the latter had written to two other Cambridge mathematicians as well? 1.13|snap=17w47a|Prior to [[1.13/Flattening|''The Flattening'']], this [[item]]'s numeral ID was 384.}}

This book is very comprehensive, being not just the story of Ramanujam, but also a social biography of colonial India and war time Europe during the early 1900s. Does digress from Ramanujam's life quite a few times, with details on life in Britain, or the social customs of Brahmanical India etc.1.1.0|snap=alpha 1.1.0.0|The entity ID has now been changed from potion.experience to xp_bottle.}} The book is full of quotations, interviews compiled by the author and it shows how much research went into this book. Author has done a great job of not being judgmental about anything he mentions in the book. It is one of the best biographies I have ever read. Ramanujan's story is very interesting since it is a rags-to-intellectual riches story, where an Indian clerk who did not even complete his graduation scribbles theorems in a notebook, which even surprised the most educated mathematicians in colleges like Trinity (where people like Newton taught). Without any formal education, he came up with theorems which took many years for other mathematicians to decipher or come up with proof. Unfortunately, he died at the age of 32. I wonder what other major contributions he would have done, had he lived for 60 years or so! Then, in a brawl after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own—one that puts him right at the heart of the conflict and sets him up to be the heroic Spell Walker Brighton always wanted to be. Skeletons, [[wither skeleton]]s, [[skeleton horse]]s, and [[stray]]s may drop 0–2 bones upon death. The maximum drop is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 bones with Looting III.