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Title

• הפקיד ההודי.
• ha-Paḳid ha-Hodi / Daṿid Leṿiṭ ; me-Anglit Liṭal Yadin.

Author

Leavitt, David, 1961-

Publication

Tel Aviv : Yediʻot aḥaronot : Sifre Ḥemed, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Yadin, Lital

Description

612 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Leavitt's novel centers on the relationship between mathematicians G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). In January of 1913, Cambridge-based Hardy receives a nine-page letter filled with prime number theorems from S. Ramanujan, a young accounts clerk in Madras. Intrigued, Hardy consults his colleague and collaborator, J.E. Littlewood; the two soon decide Ramanujan is a mathematical genius and that he should emigrate to Cambridge to work with them. Hardy recruits the young, eager don, Eric Neville, and his wife, Alice, to travel to India and expedite Ramanujan's arrival; Alice's changing affections, WWI and Ramanujan's enigmatic ailments add obstacles. Meanwhile, Hardy, a reclusive scholar and closeted homosexual, narrates a second story line cast as a series of 1936 Harvard lectures, some of them imagined. Ramanujan comes to renown as the the Hindu calculator discussions of mathematics and bits of Cambridge's often risqué academic culture (including D.H. Lawrence's 1915 visit) add authenticity.

Series Statement

Prozah (Yediʻot aḥaronot (Firm)). targum

Uniform Title

• Indian clerk. Hebrew.
• Prozah (Yediʻot aḥaronot (Firm)). Targum

Alternative Title

Indian clerk.

Subject

• Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947 > Fiction
• Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920 > Fiction
• Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920
• Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947
• Mathematicians > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Novels
• Mathematical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Gay fiction
• Biographical fiction
• Fiction
• Romans.
• Romans homosexuels.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9789654826457

OCLC

• 261376780
• SCSB-11122245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library