La formula di Ramanujan

Subject and script: Marco Abate
Artwork: Paolo Ongaro
Cover: Giancarlo Alessandrini

The lost manuscripts of Ramanujan: a perfect setting for an episode of “The Mysteries of Mystère”. But this is not the reason why Martin and Java decide to allow themselves to get involved, at the request of the young mathematician Wu, from the University of Berkeley, in the search for the elusive notes by the Hindu mathematic genius. A mysterious thief burgles the homes of all those who have come in contact with him and turns their things upside-down; the same treatment is meted out to those who are simply interested, and one person risks being paralysed forever because of these notes. But there must be something extraordinary about these notes of pure maths, if even the Men in Black have gone to the bother of trying to get hold of them – what can it be? Perhaps the secret of the most powerful of all weapons, the one able to modify the very structure of the Universe …