My search for Ramanujan : how I learned to count /: how I learned to count. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel.
• Authors: Ono, Ken, 1968-; Aczel, Amir D
• Contents: Prologue -- Part I: My Life Before Ramanujan -- Tiger Boy -- My roots -- My childhood -- An Unexpected Letter -- My escape -- Part II: The Legend of Ramanujan -- Little lord -- A creative genius -- An addiction -- Goddess -- Purgatory -- Janaki -- I beg to introduce myself -- These formulas defeated me completely -- Permission from a Goddess -- Together at last -- Culture Shock -- Triumph over racism -- English malaise -- Ramanujan's homecoming -- The tragic end -- Part III: My Life Adrift -- I believe in Santa -- Out of the frying pan and into the fire -- Erika -- The Pirate Professor -- Growing pains -- Part IV: Finding my way -- My teacher -- Hitting bottom -- A miracle -- My Hardy -- Hitting my stride -- Bittersweet reunion -- I count now -- The idea of Ramanujan -- My spirituality -- Epilogue -- My pilgrimages -- Face to Face with Ramanujan -- My search goes on -- Afterword -- Two Questions -- Fermat's Last Theorem and the Tokyo-Nikko Conference -- Mathematical gems -- Ramanujan's 1729 Taxicab number -- Approximations to p -- Highly composite numbers -- Euler's partition numbers -- Rogers-Ramanujan identities -- Ramanujan's tau-function.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 510.92; Mathematics; Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology; MATHEMATICS -- Essays; MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS -- Reference; Mathematicians; Mathematics; Number Theory; History of Mathematical Sciences; History of Science; Mathematics -- History & Philosophy; Science -- History; History of mathematics; History of science; Number theory; History; Mathematics -- Number Theory; Number theory; United States; Electronic books; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319255682; 3319255681; 3319255665; 9783319255668
• Related ISBNs: 9783319255668
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 25, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.