3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Kanigel

Robert Kanigel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who wrote a biography of the French chemist Marie Curie. He is the author of Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and a biographical study of Benjamin Franklin. He is a contributing editor at The New Yorker and a member of the Board of Trustees at the MacArthur Foundation.

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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. Robert Kanigel
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Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. Robert Kanigel