Game of Big Numbers

by Mukta Singh-Zocchi

When with single-minded discipline a gifted young mathematician from Kashmir toiled and compiled the tables of ardhachhedas – logarithms – and presented to his king this admirable artifice which would reduce the labor of many months of his contemporary Indian astronomers to a few days, the Indian nation rejected him ...The year was 1065 AD. The Indian nation was a conglomerate of kingdoms that fought among each other for vainglory but at the same time promoted literature and the progress of science. Many advanced ideas had long been developed by the Kerala, Karnataka and northern Indian schools of mathematicians. 'Game of Big Numbers' is a story of the premature demise of a genius whose works could have changed the course of the scientific development of a nation. Bogged down by betrayals, by friendships waning with the changing winds of social standing, by his love of a beauty caught between ambition and romance, and by the cold machinations of society at large determined to defeat him, the young mathematician feels disillusionment for the world at a time when he must fight back.

190 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2018