Posted on 04/30/2016 8:09:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
(Inside Science) – In 1914, an unknown Indian man boarded a ship and traveled across the world to Cambridge University in England, where he could finally follow his passion for mathematics. In the few short years between his arrival and untimely death, he filled notebooks with formulas and discovered theorems, some of which still influence the work of mathematicians and scientists today.
The new biopic, "The Man Who Knew Infinity," which opens in U.S. theaters beginning Friday, April 29, chronicles the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan. A self-taught Indian mathematician from the city then called Madras (now Chennai), Ramanujan struggled to overcome racism, poverty, and outsider status in imperial Britain during the tumultuous time of World War I. But he eventually won over the mathematical community and was the second Indian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Written and directed by Matthew Brown, the film gives an authentic portrayal of how mathematicians actually work. At Cambridge, Ramanujan, began an unlikely partnership with G. H. Hardy, who quickly recognized his impressive, if untrained, mathematical abilities.
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This man was a wonderful out side the box thinker a natural mathematician. He did magnificent work.
I am inclined to agree. The Arabs inherited the wealthiest, most cultured, best educated part of the Roman/Greek empire and turned into a barbaric hell hole. Now it took a few centuries to uneducate and impoverish everyone but they did it. Along with destroying hundreds if not thousands of ancient libraries. They are scum.
“But the remark by Hardy about being “romantic” with the Indian, is a turnoff. All we need is another movie pushing perversion.”
The romance of their maths collaboration together, not a sexual romance. Sheesh.
Their rare and at times fraught collaboration makes for an entertaining film. This is in spite its sprinkling in bits of math throughout, which some viewers might find daunting. For example, upon hearing about a taxi's number 1729, Ramanujan pointed out that that it's the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways (1 cubed plus 12 cubed and 6 cubed plus 10 cubed).
Wrong.
Me too.
Mercier
An even number cubed can never be odd.
9
From the article; “upon hearing about a taxi’s number 1729, Ramanujan pointed out that that it’s the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways (1 cubed plus 12 cubed and 6 cubed plus 10 cubed)....”
This is really weird, 1 cubed is 1 and 12 cubed is 1728 which adds up to 1729 alright but six cubed is 216 and ten cubed is 1000, that adds up to 1216, nowhere close to 1729. What kind of booboo is this?
That is odd indeed.
Arabs didn’t invent the zero. Hindus did.
Wait for the reviews: the quality of the film will depend on whether it’s about an interesting mathematical life, or about the [possibly] homosexual relationship between G.H Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan. Look for the filmmakers to ruin the book, if they can.
Heh heh.
Look back 2 posts from your #28
The 6 is just upside down! Should be 9. I knew the story so knew right away the post here was wrong!
That’s right. Now if I could count to 22..
I’ll take your word for it. Poor choice of words. This is a learned, erudite professor we’re talking about. If he merely meant the enjoyment of working with another guy, it seems to me that “camaraderie” would have been much more precise, and not suggestive at all.
But, what do I know?
Oh the images going through my mind.
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