What is the main conflict in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius, Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel?

The Man Who Knew Infinity is a book about two important mathematicians, their relationship, and how it shaped their lived and the world around them. One of these men, Ramanujan was a genius of unusual strength who would go on to develop some of the most interesting mathematical conjectures and theorems of the century, if not of all time. Yet he had only the most bare education in backwaters of South India.