The Indian Clerk_ A Novel - Leavitt, David

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1、TheIndianClerkDavidLeavittBLOOMSBURYArchimedeswillberememberedwhenAeschylusisforgotten,becauselanguagesdieandmathematicalideasdonot.“Immortality”maybeasillyword,butprobablyamathematicianhasthebestchanceofwhateveritmaymean.—G.H.Hardy,AMathematician'sApolog

2、yTableofContentsPartOne:TheKiteintheFogChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7Chapter8Chapter9Chapter10PartTwo:TheCrowintheDiningRoomChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7Chapter8PartThree:CheerfulFactsAbouttheSquareofth

3、eHypotenuseChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7PartFour:TheQualitiesoftheIsleChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5PartFive:ATerribleDreamingChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7Chapter8Chapter9Chapter10Chapter11Ch

4、apter12PartSix:PartitionChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7Chapter8Chapter9Chapter10Chapter11Chapter12Chapter13Chapter14PartSeven:TheInfiniteTrainChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4PartEight:LightningFellsaTreeChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Cha

5、pter4Chapter5Chapter6Chapter7Chapter8Chapter9PartNine:TwilightChapter1Chapter2Chapter3Chapter4Chapter5SourcesandAcknowledgmentsBytheSameAuthorANoteontheAuthorPARTONETheKiteintheFog1THEMANSITTINGnexttothepodiumappearedtobeveryold,atleastintheeyesofthemembe

6、rsofhisaudience,mostofwhomwereveryyoung.Infacthewasnotyetsixty.Thecurseofmenwholookyoungerthantheyare,Hardyoftenthought,isthatatsomemomentintheirlivestheycrossalineandstarttolookolderthantheyare.AsanundergraduateatCambridge,hehadregularlybeenmistakenforas

7、choolboyupforavisit.Asadon,hehadregularlybeenmistakenforanundergraduate.Nowagehadcaughtupwithhimandthenoutrunhim,andheseemedtheveryembodimentoftheelderlymathematicianwhomprogresshasleftbehind.“Mathematicsisayoungman'sgame”—hehimselfwouldwritethesewordsina

8、fewyearstime—andhehadhadabetterrunofitthanmost.Ramanujanhaddiedatthirty-three.ThesedaysadmirerssmittenwithRamanujan'slegendspeculatedastowhathemighthaveachievedhadhelivedlonger,butitwasHardy'sprivateopinionthathewou