#robert kanigel

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One of the best thing that ever exist is friendship. I don't know how this world will operate without kindness and love from someone you're not intimately attracted with but unconditionally in love. Things might have been different but it's not that you can predicts things. Destiny is still the ruler. I love how it always portray that scientists do not believe in God because that's the beauty of diversity in cultures and belief, the beauty of respect and acceptance and the beauty of living in this world. Ramanujan must have been given a talent and intelligence that anyone could think impossible but because he believed on what he's believing, he pursued his own dreams and did whatever it takes to share his part. Mr. Hardy and Littlewood are our great friends who just made me cry, made number 1729 meaningful than I could ever imagined. The wife and the mother who patiently waited for him. This film, though didn't cater how every equations went. I just want to say that it is for the good of all, jk. Because even if they'll tell it to us we won't understand haha. Math complicate matters but it's helpful to those who want to learn.

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2013)

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Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100. - Robert Kanigel

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Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics

Robert Kanigel’s new biography relates the curious life and death of Prof. Milman Parry.

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel https://amzn.to/3u4VHWV

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9780525520948

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Just started reading this great book.

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135 / Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel (2016) 496 pg

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.

Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates - all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets while amassing the knowledge she would draw upon to write her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead an ultimately successful protest against Robert Moses' proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village and who, in order to keep her sons out of the Vietnam War, moved to Canada, where she became as well known and admired as she was in the United States.

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Though she lacked any formal training, Jane Jacobs changed the very discourse and philosophy of urban planning and how a city should best address the needs of its inhabitants. Jacobs saved a large portion of lower Manhattan—including Greenwich Village, SoHo, and portions of Little Italy and Chinatown—from being demolished for an expressway, and her widely read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become one of the foundational texts for urban renewal. Her remarkable life is brought into vibrant focus in Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel, available now from Knopf.

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The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

Directed by Matthew Brown

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Man Who Knew Infinity

MOVIE REVIEW: The Man Who Knew Infinity

The story of the young Indian man who without any formal training suggested solutions to the most enigmatic math problems.  Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar just wanted to get a job, support his family, and share with the world his equations.  Transported from Madras to Trinity College Cambridge he embarks on the journey to prove his work correct and to fight against the pre World War One racism that…

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