Robert Kanigel
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Biography
Robert Kanigel is an American biographer and science writer, known as the author of eleven books and hundreds of articles, essays, and reviews.
"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."