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Lyla 2022-03-28 09:01:06
Biographical film, the story of Ramanujan, a genius mathematician in India, if you are still interested in mathematics and thirst for the unknown, you may wish to watch it. The story mainly takes place during the First World War. Ramanujan was appreciated by Hardy, and he jumped from an ordinary Indian clerk to a student of Trinity College in Cambridge, and finally won the Royal Academician for his contribution to the division of integers. The film has a high degree of reduction. Hardy, Ramanujan, littlewood, the top math masters of this era gathered together, and Russell also showed his face, but the film did not explain in detail that Russell was dismissed by Cambridge because of his anti-war remarks. The movie describes the details of life at that time and the current situation. For example, Hardy and littlewood were playing tennis, which was the predecessor of Wimbledon tennis. Ramanujan was a Brahmin who burned incense, prayed, and fasted every day. Expensive, but when I came to Cambridge and saw such snow-white manuscript paper, Ramanujan was a little reluctant to waste it. Indians are discriminated against in the UK... Ramanujan and Hardy are both teachers and friends, and their relationship is also the main conflict in the drama. , Hardy is an atheist, all formulas and theorems must be proved before they can be published, Ramanujan believes in Brahman, he is sure that the theorems and mathematical formulas he knows are the will of God. Hardy kept asking Ramanujan how those formula derivations were unproven until he parted and Ramanujan said it was his god and put them on my tongue every day and all I had to do was To get up and write it down every day, Hardy, a serious atheist, would only laugh it off. The last interesting thing is the number 1729, which is the smallest number that can be added by two sets of two cubic numbers 1729=9^3+10^3=1^3+12^3.
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The Man Who Knew Infinity quotes
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S. Ramanujan: What do you see?
Janaki: Sand.
S. Ramanujan: Imagine if we could look so closely we could see each grain, each particle. You see there are patterns in everything.
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Janaki: Don't forget me.
S. Ramanujan: I could never.