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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
Alznauer, Amy, author.
If Ramanujan could crack the number 1 open and find infinity, what secrets would he discover inside... More
If Ramanujan could crack the number 1 open and find infinity, what secrets would he discover inside other numbers? Less
The strange birds of Flannery O'Connor : a life
Alznauer, Amy, author.
A mango... is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopp... More
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? Less
Flying paintings : the Zhou brothers: a story of revolution and art
Alznauer, Amy, author.
When she was young, the writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. S... More
When she was young, the writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She'd watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk forwards and backwards were featured in the Pathe News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life. Less
