My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count (English Edition)

Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel

Springer

2016

238 páginas

7h 56m

ISBN-13: 9783319255682

Português Brasileiro

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

It's quite different from other (auto)biographies of/about mathematicians I've read, but it's still enjoyable. Ken Ono is much more emotionally open, maybe due to his generation. It was nice reading about his struggles with self-doubt, his relationship with his parents and their culture, and the way other mathematicians influenced his (and his father's) career. What I enjoyed the most was Ono's transition from seeing math as a mean to an end to seeing it as an end in itself. I wish I had the brains and the discipline to enjoy math as an art, but since I don't, I'll keep reading other biographies 😊

Besides being a great mathematician, Ken sounds like a good, pleasant person to meet and have dinner with. I was also happy to find out that his dad is still alive and that they seem to get along well.