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El contable hindú
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Una apasionante historia que cambió la teoría de los números en plena devastación a causa de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Una mañana de enero de 1913, G. H. Hardy –de treinta y siete años, excéntrico y carismático, y considerado ya uno de los más grandes matemáticos británicos de su tiempo– recibe un sobre misterioso con abundantes sellos indios. Dentro encuentra una carta un tanto incoherente de un humilde contable de Madrás, Srinivasa Ramanujan, que afirma estar muy cerca de encontrar la solución de uno de los más importantes –y nunca resueltos– problemas matemáticos de la época. Algunos colegas de Hardy en Cambridge piensan que eso es un cuento chino y no hacen caso de la misiva, pero él está cada vez más convencido de que Srinivasa Ramanujan merece ser tomado en serio. Y con la ayuda de su asistente Littlewood y del joven profesor Neville y su esposa Alice, que irán muy pronto a Madrás, Hardy decide averiguar todo lo que pueda sobre el misterioso Ramanujan, y hasta se propone convencerlo de que vaya a Cambridge. Esa decisión cambiará no sólo su propia vida y la de sus amigos, sino también la historia de la ciencia.

El contable hindú está basada en la historia verdadera de la extraña y finalmente trágica relación entre un admirado matemático británico y un genio autodidacta y desconocido; una historia donde tuvieron un papel intelectuales como D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell y Ludwig Wittgenstein. David Leavitt explora un periodo fascinante de la historia y la cultura en una novela apasionante, sutil y llena de matices acerca de la fragilidad de las relaciones humanas y nuestra necesidad de encontrar un orden en el mundo.

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Fecha de lanzamiento19 ene 2022
ISBN9788433943910
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David Leavitt

David Leavitt's fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the LA Times Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's and Vogue, among other publications. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida and edits the literary magazine Subtropics.

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  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    I thought this would be a book about the Indian mathematician. It is a book about an English mathematician, Hardy, and his colleagues and family. And Cambridge. And England. Even the servants. But the young man from India is presented in your basic inscrutable style. His life is hinted but never shown. And what is shown is always through the English eyes. No natives need apply.
    If I wanted to learn more about the English I would watch PBS.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Perfectly evoking the ivory tower intellectual life of Trinity College, Cambridge and English society and attitudes in Edwardian times, Leavitt delivers a superb fictionalized biography of two men, focusing on the relationship between theoretical mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Ramanujan, the Indian self-taught genius.Hardy’s war with God, social convention, Ramanujan’s quirks, his mother’s illness, and his sister’s unfulfilled potential leave the impression of a hard-working rationalist nearly lacking in all human understanding. By contrast, Ramanujan remains a mystical, insecure, frail, and estranged exotic transplant, yet working just as much as Hardy as they collaborate (with Littlewood) in an attempt to solve the Reimann Hypothesis, which remains to this day the "Holy Grail" of modern mathematics and one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    If there were a "truth in book titles" law, this novel should really be called "The Cambridge Don." Bravo to David Leavitt for doing a lot of research on Cambridge intellectuals in the period immediately before and during the First World War. Who would have thought you could write a 500 page novel about early 20th century mathematics and make it interesting? Here's the rub: based upon Leavitt's effort here, it's probably not possible. Actually, the "campus politics" aspect of the book keeps the plot simmering for the first 200 pages or so. It's fun to read about the "naughty" Cambridge Apostles, and the conflicting egos of Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other intellectual bigwigs who make their appearances here. And the Indian mathematician of the title, Srinivasa Ramanujan, is fascinating enough, even though he is treated entirely from the outside. The problem is there's not enough of interest - not enough plot - to justify the lengthy treatment that the author provides. And the central character through whom the novel is refracted, a cranky bachelor don named G.H. Hardy, becomes tiresome company halfway through the book.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    I struggled with this book to begin with but I have to stay I enjoyed it in the end. Its an interesting tale of pre-war politics in a University and the clash of cultures when an indian genius challenges mathematical thinking.For me it expresses the upper class delusions during this period of history as well as the way other cultures were misunderstood. If you pick the book up, keep with it! Its worth it in the end
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    The recognition and description of genius is a tricky enterprise, so I applaud the author for the skillful account of events (true and invented) surrounding the short and brilliant life of the great Indian mathematician Ramanujan. One also gets a great feel of the period, masterfully portrayed through the eyes and feelings of Hardy who was the instrument of bringing Ramanujan to England and also his collaborator. The overall feeling is that of melancholy and human frailness, though, and it was with me throughout the reading of the book...
  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
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    tough to get into
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    4/5
    G.H. Hardy, acclaimed mathematician, seeks to help a math prodigy from India come to England to further his development. The chilly Hardy is dismayed to find that this genius is not only one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, but also a complex human being that brings with him a baggage of personal problems and cultural barriers. "The Indian Clerk" is closely based on the real life of Ramanujan and captures the Edwardian England of those left at home during World War I.

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