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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070922
Author:Merrill Kaitz

BOOK REVIEW

Winnie the Pooh and D.H. Lawrence make cameo appearances in David Leavitt's new novel, "The Indian Clerk." So do Rupert Brooke, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

But the fascinating figure at the novel's center is Srinivasa Ramanujan, the barely educated Indian clerk who wrote a 10-page letter about numbers to the eminent historian G.H. Hardy at Cambridge University, impressed Hardy enough to invite him to England, and became one of the century's greatest mathematicians. As Hardy, Leavitt's narrator and main character, muses toward the end of the story, ...

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