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The Greeks founded Nice - Nikaia - and the Romans established their own town in the nearby hills at Cimiez. The queen, by one account, always 'showed childish excitement at the thought of exchanging Windsor for the Mediterranean. On arrival, she behaved more like a girl of 17 than a sovereign in her 70s.' The aftermath of two world wars benefited Nice. [Robert Kanigel] has dug deep into the archives to find the GIs' eulogies of Nice in letters and postcards home.

\"The one truly romantic incident of my life,\" said Cambridge don G. H. Hardy of his collaboration with Ramanujan, the self-taught mathematical genius from India. It was a collaboration that began in 1913 when Ramanujan, then an unknown office clerk at the port of Madras, sent Hardy an envelope stuffed full of intriguing mathematical formulae. It ended a short seven years later, with Ramanujan a Fellow of the Royal Society and of Trinity College, Cambridge -- and dead, at 32 years old. Religious conviction was just one of numerous barriers that threatened to stop Ramanujan's genius ever being tapped. As a poor clerk, his contact with other mathematicians and access to contemporary mathematical texts were severely limited. (Indeed, on several occasions he discovered afresh mathematical truths already ensconced in standard texts -- some for over a century.) Consequently, Ramanujan was totally unschooled, and his mathematical methods -- even in terms of the symbols he used -- were bizarre. In Ramanujan's unorthodox approach lay both his major hurdle to recognition and also his brilliance. Ramanujan suffered from the unique collaboration. Mr. [Robert Kanigel] portrays Hardy as a hard taskmaster, insensitive to Ramanujan's needs in any other sphere but math. Ramanujan, brought to Cambridge at Hardy's urging, and largely dependent on him, suffered both emotionally and physically.

In January 1913, G.H. Hardy, a prominent English mathematician, received a letter from Scrinivasa Ramanujan, an obscure 23-year-old clerk living in Madras, India. Ramanujan sought Hardy's advice and included some of his own mathematical results in the letter. Hardy was the third mathematician Ramanujan had written but the first to look closely at the mathematics. What he found profoundly affected the lives of both men. The author arrives at the 1913 letter only in Chapter 5, after devoting the first four chapters to the lives of Hardy and Ramanujan to that point, and the contrast between the educational opportunities open to both men makes Ramanujan's achievements even more the remarkable. In particular, Ramanujan's development was shaped by an English text which listed mathematical formulas without giving motivations or proofs. He took that abbreviated style as a model and completed several notebooks filled with his own creations, some of which he copied in his letter. Late in the book, [Robert Kanigel] describes Ramanujan's return to India in 1919 and his death at the age of 33 one year later. He also chronicles Ramanujan's continuing effect on Indian intellectual circles and on Hardy as well. In fact, the book is almost as much about Hardy as it is about Ramanujan.