My Search for Ramanujan How I Learned to Count /
"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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
