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My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count

Autor Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 apr 2016

Această monografie autobiografică, scrisă de Ken Ono în colaborare cu Amir D. Aczel, reprezintă o explorare profund personală a intersecției dintre geniul matematic și identitatea umană. Suntem de părere că volumul reușește o performanță rară în literatura de specialitate: transformă rigoarea teoriei numerelor într-o narațiune despre maturizare și regăsire. Structurată în patru părți distincte, cartea alternează între „Legenda lui Ramanujan” și parcursul sinuos al lui Ono, de la un adolescent rebel care dorea să abandoneze liceul, până la expertul de astăzi în moștenirea matematicianului indian.

Apreciem modul în care My Search for Ramanujan completează perspectiva biografică oferită de The Man Who Knew Infinity, adăugând o dimensiune contemporană și subiectivă. În timp ce Robert Kanigel se concentrează pe relația istorică dintre Ramanujan și Hardy, Ono analizează impactul transgenerațional al acestui geniu asupra propriei sale cariere și familii. Textul reflectă temele recurente din opera lui Ono, precum cele din Number Theory and Modular Forms, dar le extrage din contextul pur tehnic pentru a le plasa într-un cadru spiritual și emoțional. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit onestitatea cu care autorul descrie „presiunea performanței” și modul în care figurile mentorilor l-au ghidat prin momentele de derivă academică. Cuprinsul relevă o progresie de la rădăcinile japoneze ale autorului către pelerinaje pe trei continente, culminând cu o înțelegere profundă a umanității din spatele formulelor matematice complexe, precum numerele taxi sau aproximările lui pi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319255668
ISBN-10: 3319255665
Pagini: 330
Ilustrații: XVI, 238 p. 47 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă latura umană, aproape mistică, a matematicii de înalt nivel. Cititorul va descoperi nu doar biografia fascinantă a lui Ramanujan, ci și povestea inspirațională a lui Ken Ono, care demonstrează că succesul nu este un drum liniar. Este o lectură esențială pentru studenți și mentori, oferind o perspectivă rară despre cum pasiunea pentru un subiect abstract poate vindeca relații personale și poate oferi un sens profund vieții.


Despre autor

Ken Ono este un matematician american de origine japoneză, specialist în teoria numerelor, în special în domenii precum formele modulare și partițiile întregi. A editat lucrări importante precum Topics in Number Theory și a fost o forță motrice în promovarea studiilor dedicate lui Ramanujan. Amir D. Aczel, co-autorul său, a fost un cunoscut popularizator al științei, renumit pentru capacitatea de a traduce concepte matematice complexe pe înțelesul publicului larg. Împreună, cei doi reușesc să îmbine rigoarea academică a editurii Springer cu o sensibilitate narativă remarcabilă.


Descriere scurtă

"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom his father revered, who had twice flunked out of college because of his single-minded devotion to mathematics.

Ono describes his rocky path through college and graduate school, interweaving Ramanujan’s story with his own and telling how at key moments, he was inspired by Ramanujan and guided by mentors who encouraged him to pursue his interest in exploring Ramanujan’s mathematical legacy.

Picking up where others left off, beginning with the great English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who brought Ramanujan to Cambridge in 1914, Ono has devoted his mathematical career to understanding how in his short life, Ramanujan was able to discover so many deep mathematical truths, which Ramanujan believed had been sent to him as visions from a Hindu goddess. And it was Ramanujan who was ultimately the source of reconciliation between Ono and his parents.

Ono’s search for Ramanujan ranges over three continents and crosses paths with mathematicians whose lives span the globe and the entire twentieth century and beyond. Along the way, Ken made many fascinating discoveries. The most important and surprising one of all was his own humanity."
 

Cuprins

Prologue.- Part I: My Life Before Ramanujan.- Tiger Boy.- My roots.- My childhood.- An Unexpected Letter.- My escape.- Part II: The Legend of Ramanujan.- Little lord.- A creative genius.- An addiction.- Goddess.- Purgatory.- Janaki.- I beg to introduce myself.- These formulas defeated me completely.- Permission from a Goddess.- Together at last.- Culture Shock.- Triumph over racism.- English malaise.- Ramanujan's homecoming.- The tragic end.- Part III: My Life Adrift.- I believe in Santa.- Out of the frying pan and into the fire.- Erika.- The Pirate Professor.- Growing pains.- Part IV: Finding my way.- My teacher.- Hitting bottom.- A miracle.- My Hardy.- Hitting my stride.- Bittersweet reunion.- I count now.- The idea of Ramanujan.- My spirituality.- Epilogue.- My pilgrimages.- Face to Face with Ramanujan.- My search goes on.- Afterword.- Two Questions.- Fermat's Last Theorem and the Tokyo-Nikko Conference.- Mathematical gems.- Ramanujan's 1729 Taxicab number.- Approximations to p.- Highly composite numbers.- Euler's partition numbers.- Rogers-Ramanujan identities.- Ramanujan's tau-function.

Recenzii

“To many, mathematics is seen as an impenetrable wall of logic, symbols and formulas. I would highly recommend this book to those who want to get a meaningful glimpse of what is behind the wall and how the wall can be penetrated. There are too few books that describe the artistic, creative and human, and even spiritual aspect of the mathematical enterprise. ‘My search for Ramanujan’ is therefore a welcome addition to this literature.” (V. Kumar Murty, London Mathematical Newsletter (LMS), newsletter.lms.ac.uk, January, 2017)
“This is an intellectual autobiography and confession of the American number theorist Ken Ono … . book is accessible to any interested reader, mathematician or not. … the numerous photographs appear both in a center color plate section and in black and white where they belong in the text. … Very well written and a good study of how one mathematician’s career developed.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, maa.org, July, 2016)
“It is clear that the author, giving this account of his life, has great admiration for Ramanujan and feels deeply indebted to him which shows on almost every page of this book. … The book is amply illustrated with grayscale images, which are duplicated in color version in a separate section. All technicalities of the mathematics are avoided so that the book can be read by anyone.” (Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society, euro-math-soc.eu, May, 2016)

Notă biografică

Ken Ono is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has received many awards for his research in number theory, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. He was awarded a Presidential Career Award by Bill Clinton in a ceremony at the White House in 2000, and in 2005 he was named the National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar. Ono served as Associate Producer and Consultant for the forthcoming film on the life and work of Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity. Additionally, he serves as Editor-in-Chief for several journals, including Research in the Mathematical Sciences and Research in Number Theory, and he is an Editor of The Ramanujan Journal. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Graduate Texts in Mathematics.

Amir D. Aczel is a bestselling author and historian of science. He received his PhD in Statistics from University of Oregon. Dr. Aczel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, and he is currently a visiting researcher at Boston University's Center for the Philosophy & History of Science. He has written articles that have been published by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, and the Huffington Post.

Caracteristici

A passionate personal account of a mathematician who followed in the footsteps of the enigmatic Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Provides a deeply moving account of spirituality and self-discovery; doubt and vindication Retraces the life, career, and legacy of Ramanujan and those who have followed