De Indische klerk
by David Leavitt
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In 1913 ontvangt de jonge homoseksuele Hardy, een beroemd wiskundige, een brief van de Indische klerk Ramanujan, die een wiskundig raadsel zou kunnen oplossen. Hardy nodigt de klerk uit naar Cambridge te komen. Hardy's leven en de geschiedenis van de wiskunde veranderen hierdoor drastisch.
Wanneer een obscure Indiase klerk een geniaal mathematisch natuurtalent blijkt te zijn, wordt hij in 1913 door enkele beroemde Engelse wiskundigen naar Cambridge gehaald, maar zijn aanpassing gaat niet zonder slag of stoot.
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January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy – eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age – receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about this mysterious Indian clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, and populated with such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, The Indian Clerk fashions from this fascinating period an utterly compelling story about our need to find order in the world.
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