Two decades after he began work on the book that became The Man Who Knew Infinity, its author tells of the mathematical genius Ramanujan's ever-increasing presence in the cultural and scientific life of the West. Film, theater, literature and even dance have felt the spell of his story, while mathematicians continue to plumb his notebooks for its secrets. About Robert Kanigel Robert Kanigel, the author of the book "The Man who knew Infinity-A life of the genius Ramanujan", is professor of Science Writing at M.I.T. Robert Kanigel's achievement is not simply to make Ramanujan's science accessible, but to show the pleasure, the excitement, and the love of numbers that inspired it. Here is a life and a life's work that resound a century later, a testimonia to the truth that genius can flower in the most unlikely places, and a biography with all the drama, the richness, and the cultural sweep of a fine historical novel. -- From the dustjacket of the Scribners hardcover edition, 1991