Letters from an Indian Clerk (1987)
• October 29th, 1987 • 1h 0min
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The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.
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