ISO Ramanujan's high-res handwriting.
March 26, 2010 2:09 PM Subscribe
Can someone help me get high-res scans of Ramanujan's notebooks?
I'm working on a project that uses Ramanujan's handwriting. I'm going to be printing it real big so want the highest quality source material I can get.
Ramanujan's notebooks were first published as photostats in 1957 (cite: Ramanujan, S. Notebooks, 2 vols. Bombay: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1957). Local libraries are coming up empty on this one.
There are low-res scans online here, and a few random pages scattered around the web at higher resolutions.
I need either the book itself (which is out there somewhere, right?) or better scans than what I've found online. Any thoughts?
I'm working on a project that uses Ramanujan's handwriting. I'm going to be printing it real big so want the highest quality source material I can get.
Ramanujan's notebooks were first published as photostats in 1957 (cite: Ramanujan, S. Notebooks, 2 vols. Bombay: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1957). Local libraries are coming up empty on this one.
There are low-res scans online here, and a few random pages scattered around the web at higher resolutions.
I need either the book itself (which is out there somewhere, right?) or better scans than what I've found online. Any thoughts?
Best answer: You're located near SF, CA, right? I found your cite at the following libraries in the bay area:
posted by RichardP at 3:01 PM on March 26, 2010
- UC Berkley's NRLF
- The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose
- Stanford's Mathematical & Computer Sciences Library (search for 1209572)
posted by RichardP at 3:01 PM on March 26, 2010
Local libraries are coming up empty on this one.
Use interlibrary loan.
posted by neuron at 4:03 PM on March 26, 2010
Use interlibrary loan.
posted by neuron at 4:03 PM on March 26, 2010
Best answer: There should be a copy of the 1957 book near you. If you're in Europe, here are some more copies (including the 1984 reprint).
If there is not one nearby, you can request it through interlibrary loan like neuron suggested.
If the facsimiles in the book aren't good enough, Trinity College Cambridge has copies of the notebooks. The original notebooks were returned to the University of Madras (library contact page).
posted by derforsher at 1:56 PM on March 27, 2010
If there is not one nearby, you can request it through interlibrary loan like neuron suggested.
If the facsimiles in the book aren't good enough, Trinity College Cambridge has copies of the notebooks. The original notebooks were returned to the University of Madras (library contact page).
posted by derforsher at 1:56 PM on March 27, 2010
Best answer: Coming late to the party, but: Can you vectorize the low-res ones you get? Depending on the original photos and how "real big" you are going to print these, you are probably going to get bitmap artifacts anyway.
posted by DU at 8:56 AM on March 29, 2010
posted by DU at 8:56 AM on March 29, 2010
Response by poster: Thanks to all! I ended up using what I had and vectorizing, as DU suggested. We didn't have the time to explore the options others suggested, unfortunately. I appreciate all the help, though!
posted by wemayfreeze at 12:36 PM on April 26, 2010
posted by wemayfreeze at 12:36 PM on April 26, 2010
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posted by madcaptenor at 2:42 PM on March 26, 2010