[MtnClimber]

Usually don’t pay attention to movies. May have to see this one.

[Gamecock]

I am amazed at people who are wired that way.

I have a friend who can look at complex equations and see a mistake instantly.

Me? I can’t count to 21 unless I am naked.

[mjp]

I have the book. This movie sounds interesting to me

[chajin]

Reminds me of the old saw about the Arab who invented the zero: when he was praised on the accomplishment, he said it was really nothing.

[Paisan]

This guy was mentioned in the movie, Good Will Hunting

[Bratch]

How do we know he suffered an "untimely death"?

Maybe he just...evolved.

[Tucker39]

I might have been interested, too. But the remark by Hardy about being “romantic” with the Indian, is a turnoff. All we need is another movie pushing perversion.

[P.O.E.]

[Nateman]

His mentor, Hardy, was also an interesting fellow. Proud in the belief his work would have no practical value whatsoever, it turned out it become important for encryption. He also sent out a letter saying he solved the infamous 'Riemann Hypothesis' It was just a ruse, he thought God would surly not let him drown on a sea voyage leading the world to believe he had actually solved it.

[Nifster]

This man was a wonderful out side the box thinker a natural mathematician. He did magnificent work.

[imardmd1]

From the original article:

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.

[FredZarguna]

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the man who knew numbers. The man who knew ∞ was Georg Cantor.

[onedoug]

Ping for Netflix/Amazon....

[Talisker]

Ramanujan tells Hardy that the Hindu goddess Namagiri writes the formulas on his tongue each night.

See, he tells how he does it, but nobody believes him. No one in the entire world could do what he did, but everyone is absolutely certain he was wrong about what he repeatedly experienced while he did it.

You know why we can't have nice things? That's why we can't have nice things!

[minnesota_bound]

Here you have a guy from the poorest of poor nations who teaches himself math but here in the USA we have teaches giving a failing grade to a person who says 2+2=4 because common core math says it is not correct.

[steve86]

The short article doesn’t begin to do Ramanujan justice. He rediscovered hundreds of years if not millenia of maths proofs entirely on his own, as independently as a solitary lotus flower.

[imardmd1]

Thanks so much for catching this story. It has caused me to think back over what prompts children to exercise the kind of imagination that brought this young man to consider infinity or anything like it.

I believe that most of this capability for adventure of the mind becomes real only while an infant's mind is developing and probably ceases to grow at about the time of puberty. I don't know what the educators philosophize about, but simply training children to fit some kind of existing job when their schooling is done seems rather limiting and without much challenge.

I want to see this movie before it becomes too stale for the theaters.

[SouthParkRepublican]

Bump for later.

[DoodleDawg]

Adding it to my list, though if it comes to KC it’ll probably be in one of the art theaters on the Kansas side.