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Author:   Ken Ono ,  Amir D. Aczel
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.571kg
ISBN:  

9783319255668

ISBN 10:   3319255665
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   12 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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.

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It is clear that the author, giving this account of his life, has great admiration for Ramanujan and feels deeply indebted to him which shows on almost every page of this book. ... The book is amply illustrated with grayscale images, which are duplicated in color version in a separate section. All technicalities of the mathematics are avoided so that the book can be read by anyone. (Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society, euro-math-soc.eu, May, 2016)

This is an intellectual autobiography and confession of the American number theorist Ken Ono ... . book is accessible to any interested reader, mathematician or not. ... the numerous photographs appear both in a center color plate section and in black and white where they belong in the text. ... Very well written and a good study of how one mathematician's career developed. (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, maa.org, July, 2016) It is clear that the author, giving this account of his life, has great admiration for Ramanujan and feels deeply indebted to him which shows on almost every page of this book. ... The book is amply illustrated with grayscale images, which are duplicated in color version in a separate section. All technicalities of the mathematics are avoided so that the book can be read by anyone. (Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society, euro-math-soc.eu, May, 2016)

Author Information

Ken Ono is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has received many awards for his research in number theory, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. He was awarded a Presidential Career Award by Bill Clinton in a ceremony at the White House in 2000, and in 2005 he was named the National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar. Ono served as Associate Producer and Consultant for the forthcoming film on the life and work of Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity. Additionally, he serves as Editor-in-Chief for several journals, including Research in the Mathematical Sciences and Research in Number Theory, and he is an Editor of The Ramanujan Journal. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Amir D. Aczel is a bestselling author and historian of science. He received his PhD in Statistics from University of Oregon. Dr. Aczel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, and he is currently a visiting researcher at Boston University's Center for the Philosophy & History of Science. He has written articles that have been published by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, and the Huffington Post.

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