How long does it take to read The Man Who Knew Infinity?
A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel takes about 8 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 438 pages, about 120,450 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Mathematicians, Biography, England, India, Mathematicians -- India -- Biography, Mathematicians, biography
