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My Search for Ramanujan - How I Learned to Count (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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My Search for Ramanujan - How I Learned to Count (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the
United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of
high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his
pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high
school to follow his own path. To obtain his father's approval, he
invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy
Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom his father revered, who had twice flunked
out of college because of his single-minded devotion to
mathematics. Ono describes his rocky path through college and
graduate school, interweaving Ramanujan's story with his own and
telling how at key moments, he was inspired by Ramanujan and guided
by mentors who encouraged him to pursue his interest in exploring
Ramanujan's mathematical legacy. Picking up where others left off,
beginning with the great English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who
brought Ramanujan to Cambridge in 1914, Ono has devoted his
mathematical career to understanding how in his short life,
Ramanujan was able to discover so many deep mathematical truths,
which Ramanujan believed had been sent to him as visions from a
Hindu goddess. And it was Ramanujan who was ultimately the source
of reconciliation between Ono and his parents. Ono's search for
Ramanujan ranges over three continents and crosses paths with
mathematicians whose lives span the globe and the entire twentieth
century and beyond. Along the way, Ken made many fascinating
discoveries. The most important and surprising one of all was his
own humanity."
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