Description: In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging the pre-eminent mathematicians opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. It was the beginning of collaboration with a true genius of the century.
Brief description:
Robert Kanigal, the author of nine books, has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, the Grady-Stack Award for science writing and, for his biography of Milman Parry, a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. For more information, visit www.robertkanigel.com.
Review Quotes:
"Arithmetic equations in an audiobook? In Humphrey Bower's eloquent reading...spoken numbers manage not to confuse...This is a classy production. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."
-- "AudioFile"