Letters from an Indian Clerk

Name: Letters from an Indian Clerk
Director: Christopher Sykes
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-10-29
Duration: 60 min

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The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.

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