Ramanujan, math and movie stars
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- "The Man Who Knew Infinity" is a new movie about the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an obscure, self-taught mathematician from India who was mentored by G.H. Hardy at Cambridge University during the height of British colonialism. Their collaboration changed math and science forever, says Emory University mathematician Ken Ono. In this video, Ono talks about his role as the math consultant for the movie, and how his life and work are inspired by Ramanujan.
He died at the age of 32!
just imagine if he stayed alive for another 2 or 3 decades... the amount of knowledge and discoveries that he would present to the world is unthinkable
sam hue. --- I wont mind if it was his destiny to live only for 32 (dunno why the early 30s seems a recurring theme in the deaths of great men - Jesus, Adi Sankara, Vivekananda ) but if he had spent these years in the US, instead of UK, the world would have benefited more undoubtedly. Besides, the world would have known about him without the need for a movie.
One of the things that I never quite understood is that the state from where Ramanujan hailed is known to celebrate the life of any and every local that achieved any thing close to fame. But somehow, Ramanujan was forgotten -- his life should be in text books; there should be a chair in every Math/Computer Sci. dept. Fact is even IITs ignored Ramanujan. Very sad.
seriously
darbhas you have a point I wonder what that was about 32 years of age.
Most geniuses don't hang around for long. They seem to have their work cut out for them.
Gauss, another mathematical genius, also died in his 30s.
Gauss died at age 78
One of the best movie i've ever seen.
Ramanujan never dies. Ramanujan lives for infinity.
Looks like Ken Ono has put in great amount of effort in the film. This film should start with a bang.
Salute man!!!
Namaskar...
WOW!!! this looks like it will resemble another great movie like a beautiful mind
+Harry Smart Ben Affleck said this story is the inspiration of a Beautiful Mind.
Wobbly Bit i believe so
+Wobbly Bit I think you mean this story was an inspiration for goodwill hunting. Ben Affleck played no part in a Beautiful mind, which was based on a biography of a completely different real life mathematician.
I had a task at school to speak about ramanujan. I had some idea about him but wasn't so familiar. This made my like to mathematics in love
As an analytical number theorists this movie was a big hit and a small miss at the same time. The ubiquitous subtleties in the background, the zeta function, the master theorem, and the actual partition function were nice touches but nothing beats the mathematics itself in verbage. Seeing the magic squares at the beginning made me realize it wasn't going to be some knock-off film, so I held my breath waiting for some Intuitional understanding that sort of came. The closest to the conversational mathematics came when Hardy talked about the negative values of the gamma function. Euler and Jacobbi were mentioned in this film but the master of prime's Bernhard Riemann was no where to be mentioned. I can understand direchlet not being mentioned but Ramanujuan's work is so deeply connected to the Riemann hypothesis. Ramanujan's character was too subtle as well. One of the more cathartic events for a mathematics video was the mental calculation battle, along with the overt explanation of partitions. There are documented accounts of him working for 30 hours straight then sleeping for 20 hours. His time at Trinity college did meet some backlash due to his minority status, but his overall now widely considered bipolar seemed to be his biggest ally and inhibitor. His strict disliking of proofs was well documented and definitely properly represented in the film, as well as his vegetarian diet. The acting was phenomenal, no doubt a stellar performance from every actor involved. Stephen Fry is even in this movie, of which his presence seems to have a correlating success rate. Overall I would give this movie 4.5 out of 5. I would recommend it to any individual, the balance between satisfying the mathematicians and the overall General Public was well-defined in this movie.
I thought Dev patel character in slumdog millionaire was called
" Jamal Malik" not sonny
These videos kind of make me feel like rewatching the film, haha...I've watched it some 3 times, maybe 4, not sure...maybe less, but more than 2, I think...
I felt that, unlike many a film, where they dumb things down too much, I would say, haha, like The Theory of Everything (I like it, but there's something naive, I've always felt, about some of the statements I feel a professional physicist would never make) something rang true about The Man Who Knew Infinity, I'm not surprised they had a consultant...well, haha, they probably always do, but they could have not listened to him...A Beautiful Mind also didn't feel as naive as The Theory of Everything...even the way things were, the interactions, etc, seemed somewhat real to me, in this film...
It's more the way it's done that apealed to me, the atmosphere, the camaraderie between Littlewood and Hardy, haha, rather than just the fact that it's about Ramanujan and math...I mean...something not as cheesy as you would expect, about this film...there are countless films about math I only watched once and didn't care much for...
thankyou for everyone who worked for this movie it is a must watch for movie lovers of great taste
There is a superb documentary by Chris Sykes from 1987 on Ramanujan.
Beautiful!
first Stephen hawking(theory of every thing) now Ramanujan (man who know infinity ).Who is next Einstein ??
+nikitha nayaer theory of everything was just a drama.
i didn't watch it yet i just saw its trailer
+nikitha nayaer It was really really boring movie. Nowhere close to physics/maths
Aditya N i was planing to watch man who know infinity and theory of every thing after my exams
you will stop watching theory of everything in between :p hope man who knew infinity doesn't disappoint
Nice informative little discussion.
Watch the movie everyone please this is one of the best movie
The reason Ramanujan was inspired to come up with the mathematical equations was because he came from a family with a long lineage of astrologers. Both his father and paternal grandfather were experts in Sanskrit and the Vedas, they were priests and made their living conducting rituals in private homes. They were also honorary astrologers at the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple. His mom had a lot of influence on him discussing the astrological theories at an early age and that inspired him to learn this complicated subject.
Astrology is one of the great sciences that is lost due to foreign invasions and lack of appreciation for such sciences.
+1noneuser I beg to disagree. I am not sure Ramanujan himself attributed his intuition to astrology. It was the Goddess of Namagiri, the family deity, who wrote equations on his tongue and told him to go overseas - at least according to him. Please read the biography The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel on which this film is based, if you haven't done so already.
+Aravindh Chidambaram I disagree with you on astrology part but I have to agree with on the Namagiri devatha- He is an ardent devotee of her. Ramanujan indeed has lot of idea on Astrology and used to show these skills - now and then.I have ready many books on him!
+1noneuser lol.. The foreign invasions probably stole the stars and the constellations.
sandy thompson Astrology is actually a science, especially in the East. It uses complex mathematics to calculate the movement of celestial objects and to find out a regularity.
@ Exactly. Astrology is total bullshit. He was smart but too crazy to admit it.
This movie should get oscar award
This is the film which reflects Math
My respect
Amo esta película. Magnificos actores. Una gran pérdida para el mundo por este gran hombre que con su humildad e inteligencia derrumbó la soberbia de algunos.
@@sachinnandakumar1008 I liked the movie a lot. magnificent actors. a great loss for the world that with humility and intelligence overthrew the pride of others. Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
Dev Patel played Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire and Sonny in the best exotic marigold hotel
i like this vidio
What exactly were his contributions to math which is now being used in solving problems?
asian has the best brain in the world. namaste!!!
+CWT91 Unfortunately this movie explains it is the opposite that is true. Ramanujan defies all logic, you need to understand that.
CWT91 z newton einsteen nikola tesla archimides galileo are from Asia?
@mahendar goud except Einstein all are Physicists, they contributed most to physics and not Maths.
now I know what is infinity.... same to story ramanujan and me"but firstly in my dream that is simbul of gamma.. then relationship on alphabet Greek for z "Latin g (geometry) ibrani for zain and arabic for zai.....zai it sAme huruf rA..but deffrent in the dot!...THAT IS ALL VALUE NUMBER IS (SEVEN) IN ESCOTOLOGY, YOU CAN understand the map what is 7 and infinite....
Where and when can we watch it?
JAI KALI Maa!!!
When is it being release in the UK?
+gary thomson 29 April Worldwide
okay, thanks.
+gary thomson think about it if he play as Tesla it will be perfect he resembles him better than Ramanujam
gary Ramanand Sagar ka Kitne dur hai
S ramanujan
Oh I see his left handed.
If u can't see the beauty of the equation in the equation ur writing then u didn't understood the equation well.
He was in contact with Aliens, who taught him mathematics
he called them God. you can call them aliens no issues but believe in it believe in energy.
Hmm...Dev Patel is 6'2'' and S. Ramanujan was 5'6'' at most.
+mammal11111 S.Ramanujan was a Genius and Dev is not.
+@lex They should share at least SOME physical features and facial proportions. Patel and Ramanujan share NONE!
For comparison:
John Nash Jr. 6'1'' and Russell Crowe ~ 6''.
Abe Lincoln 6'4'' and Daniel Day-Lewis 6'2''.
i my opinion he is not genius he is just like a god how know everything
Ramanujan number: 1,729
Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km.
Golden number: 1.61803...
• (1,729 x 6,378 x (10^-3)) ^1.61803 x (10^-3) = 3,474.18
Moon's diameter: 3,474 km.
Ramanujan number: 1,729
Speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s
Earth's Equatorial Diameter: 12,756 km. Earth's Equatorial Radius: 6,378 km.
• (1,729 x 299,792,458) / 12,756 / 6,378) = 6,371
Earth's average radius: 6,371 km.
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Dr. Br ambedkar is bade Vidvan the
I'm not fully convinced this is an accurate portrayal of his life.
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It is not the Goddess. The intuition from God came in the form of Goddess because that is what he believed in. Intuition comes to most scientists. Einstein had the intuition about E = mc2 but had to work hard to prove that to the scientific community.
If Ramanujan mother have said him to eat the flesh he would do wat anyone cannot imagine.his mother was not good according to me