I could understand the importance of Ramanujan's work, thanks to Kanigel's explanation. And i never regretted it anytime until i read some of the mathematical parts in this book. He succeeds in successfully recreating the early 20th century rural Tamilnadu as well as Ramanujan's isolation in war time England for the readers. The author clearly researched his subject thoroughly. This biography by Robert Kanigel is a work of outstanding literary and scholarly accomplishment. There was a news about his last notebooks on mock modular forms being proven just last month. That mathematicians are trying to come to terms with his papers and notebooks to this day, is a testimony to his originality. He was a genius whose early death, owing to a multitude of factors not entirely in his control, was a tragedy too profound for tears, as someone said. 2013 December 22nd was the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Bianca Malinowski as Abigail Manet (as Bianca Malino).Ashley LeConte Campbell as Josephine Manet.Isabella Hofmann as Lilibeth Simone, Lena's mother. With the help of Odette, Declan and Lena realize that they are inextricably linked with Manet Hall, and uncover a shocking secret that has been hidden there for more than 100 years. While living in the house, Declan begins to have visions from a century past and details of events that took place in the mansion. Lena was raised on the bayou by her grandmother Odette (Dunaway), and has her own deep connection with the manor. Declan is also distracted by an undeniable attraction to Cajun local, Lena Simone. Local legends claim that the house is haunted, and shortly after Declan moves in, he begins hearing voices and seeing things. The film revolves around Harvard-educated lawyer Declan Fitzpatrick (O'Connell), who impulsively gives up his settled life to buy Manet Hall, a newly restored plantation manor near New Orleans, which he has always been drawn to. The film debuted on March 28, 2009, on Lifetime. The film is based on the 2001 Nora Roberts novel of the same name and is part of the Nora Roberts 2009 movie collection, which also includes Northern Lights, High Noon, and Tribute. Midnight Bayou, also known as Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou, is a 2009 made-for-TV movie directed by Ralph Hemecker, which stars Jerry O'Connell, Lauren Stamile, and Faye Dunaway. A dozen years younger than him and the daughter of his friend, Livy is everything he cannot have.and everything he needs. Yet temptation taunts him by transforming the little girl he once saved into an alluring young woman. After his tortured past, he channels his demons toward helping others, and the last thing he wants or deserves is innocence. Notorious widower Ben Wodehouse, the Duke of Hadleigh, has only one goal in mind: redemption. Little does she realize that the path to danger will also lead to her heart's deepest desire. Livy dedicates herself to solving a deadly case. When Livy joins Lady Charlotte Fayne's charity for young ladies and discovers that it is a front for a covert investigative agency, she is thrilled. Spirited debutante Lady Olivia McLeod, cherished daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Strathaven, has two interests: solving mysteries and winning the love of her rescuer and secret crush, the infamous Duke of Hadleigh. Now she is a woman determined to heal his heart. A new historical romance series from USA Today best seller Grace Callaway. When Nancy and Pete stumble upon another murdered woman in the same area where Pete’s mom was found, both realize it can’t be a coincidence. It also led her to a new guy in her life named Pete and the very shady circumstances surrounding his own mother’s death. But one letter alluding to her dead mother brought her back to Bayport, and back to her pals Bess, George, and the Hardy Boys. That meant a big school and a big chance to take her knack for solving mysteries onto a bigger stage. She’d recovered from the random death of her mother and left her small town behind for River Heights. Yet that’s exactly what Nancy Drew has done. It’s often said that you can’t go home again. X-Men: Nightcrawler leaves Krakoa after losing hope in the nation.
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Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. EoeWriting for a younger audience than usual, Lowry displays a keen understanding of how second-grade classrooms operate.ee" Horn Book eoeLowrye(tm)s masterful writing style reaches directly into her audience, managing both to appeal to young listeners and to engage readers.ee" The Bulletin of the Center for Childrene(tm)s Books eoeVeteran author Lowry produces a laugh-out-loud chapter book.e Booklist eoeeirrepressible Gooney Bird is that rare bird in childrene(tm)s fiction: one that instantly becomes an amusing and popular favorite.e Kirkus Reviews, "Writing for a younger audience than usual, Lowry displays a keen understanding of how second-grade classrooms operate." 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A guaranteed edge-of-your-seat read aloud for upper elementary and middle school fans of tall tales, mythology, and folkloric literary adventures.- SLC, Part of the "Rick Riordan Presents" series, this debut novel offers a richly realized world, a conversational, breezy style, and a satisfying conclusion that leaves room for sequels.- SLJ, Mbalia's epic debut centers African American characters and tradition, featuring a pantheon of legends and a plot worthy of such tricksters as Brer Rabbit and Anansi the Weaver. This epic tale is worthy of the endorsement of Rick Riordan, who wrote the preface in this novel. Kane, Brooklyn-born and a lifetime New Yorker, worked for many years in journalism and corporate public relations before shifting to fiction writing. With the exception that the hero graduated from being an investigator who worked for a large agency to becoming an owner-operated lone wolf, the last of the Liddell stories was not very different from the first of them-a notion that Kane made literal at times, as he was known to reuse whole scenes, verbatim, from earlier stories, thus cutting down on his thinking if not on his typing. There were 29 published novels in the series, and before that an assortment of shorter pieces published in such pulp magazines as Crack Detective. Kane’s name on a cover, usually in the company of an awful, punning title (Trigger Mortis, Hearse Class Male, and so on) and an enticing illustration by Harry Bennett or Robert Stanley, guaranteed an easygoing return to the world of tough guys and dangerous dames, unsavory settings and flippant dialogue punctuated by left hooks and gunfire. Frank Kane’s popular series about big-city private eye Johnny Liddell was a paperback equivalent of the B-movie westerns of the 1930s and 1940s: one read the topics not expecting to find anything different, demanding, or even first-rate about them but because one enjoyed the form. West, it would be difficult to say that Christianity "led to" His latest book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led toįreedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, continues along the same path, Stark's book, published ten years ago, did not Virtues that only the rarest of philosophers achieved the rabidlyĪnti-Christian Emperor Julian lamented that Christian charity put paganĮfforts to shame. Marveled, for example, that Christianity helped ordinary people attain Social science at Baylor University, argued persuasively thatĬhristianity grew so explosively in the classical world because itīrought superior benefits to rich and poor, men and women, slave andįree, the young, old, and infirm. IN THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY (1997), Rodney Stark, a professor of The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism,Īnd Western Success, by Rodney Stark. MLA style: "What hath god wrought?." The Free Library. |