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254 pages, Hardcover
First published February 22, 2016
I will continue mentoring bright math students, the future Ramanujans.... What is interesting about many of the students that I have mentored ... is that they have often come from nontraditional or unpromising circumstances. What unites them is that they have been drawn by the beauty of mathematics. I owe it to them and my mentors, and I owe it to Ramanujan, to do my part. Searching for Ramanujan is my calling; it is my life's purpose.
How was I lucky enough to get to where I am today? That is the question that opened this book. The preceding pages prove that the answer is multidimensional, and the many steps in the proof amazingly trace my search for Ramanujan.
Doing mathematics is a mental voyage in which clarity of thought and openness to insight make it possible to see the deeper beauty of a mathematical structure, to enter a world where triumph over a problem depends less on conscious effort than on confidence, creativity, determination, and intellectual rigor.