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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Book by Robert Kanigel · 5 quotes · Failure, Mathematics, Algebra

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“Ramanujan had lost all his scholarships. He had failed in school. Even as a tutor of the subject he loved most, he'd been found wanting. He had nothing. And yet, viewed a little differently, he had everything. For now there was nothing to distract him from his notebooks- notebooks, crammed with theorems, that each day, each week, bulged wider.”