Part-1: Recently , I started reading this book - 'The man who knew infinity', which is a fascinating biography of the brilliant, self-taught Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan authored by a westerner, Robert Kanigel. Later, a very successful Hollywood film was also made based on this book. But sadly, when a film on an Indian genius was made by the British, literally no one in India knew and it barely was released in one or two cities in India...! Though it's the biography of a mathematician , the author has done some incredible reasearch about the life of Hindus in South India in the late 1800's and the way culture was preserved here. It is also a history of the astonishing fruitful cross-cultural collaboration between this young genius and his mentor at Cambridge University, G.H.Hardy - a relationship that turned the world of mathematics upside down. It also introduces you to some of the most exciting discoveries of Ramanujan, easily digestible to laymen. In ...