Bibliograph

The boy who dreamed of infinity, a tale of the genius Ramanujan, Amy Alznauer ; illustrated by Daniel Miyares

Type

Label

The boy who dreamed of infinity, a tale of the genius Ramanujan, Amy Alznauer ; illustrated by Daniel Miyares

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The boy who dreamed of infinity

Medium

audio-enabled book

resource.readingGradeLevel

Grades K-3

Responsibility statement

Amy Alznauer ; illustrated by Daniel Miyares

Sub title

a tale of the genius Ramanujan

Summary

"A mango . . . is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the beasts dancing on the temple tower. He writes mathematics with his finger in the sand, across the pages of his notebooks, and with chalk on the temple floor. "What is small?" he wonders. "What is big?" Head in the clouds, Ramanujan struggles in school -- but his mother knows that her son and his ideas have a purpose. As he grows up, Ramanujan reinvents much of modern mathematics, but where in the world could he find someone to understand what he has conceived?"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

primary

Classification