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A fledgling mathematics genius found in India.

• Based on The Man Who Knew Infinity – (1991 book), by Robert Kanigel regarding the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

• 1:00 — “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty…” — Bertrand Russell
• 1:30 — Trinity College, Cambridge – England – 1920
• 2:15 — Madras – India – 1914
• 3:30 — Galileo
• 3:45 — Fate
• 4:30 — Based on the book by Robert Kanigel
• 8:45 — Madras

• 14:30 —

  • Isaac Newton
  • Byron

• 15:45 — Negative values of the gamma function

  • See Particular values of the gamma function
• 20:30 — I don’t understand this. I know about it from samurai, but not from India.
• 23:45 — Gunga Din
• 25:00 — Newton
• 38:30 — Mathematical proofs
• 39:00 — Euler and Jacobi
• 39:45 — Mozart

• 41:00 —

  • Epistles of St. Paul
  • Poems of Milton
  • Morgan‘s bible
  • Newton‘s pancopea mathematica
• 44:15 — Partition (number theory) and Partition function (mathematics)
• 45:30 — It’s stupid to make him conform. I’d have a couple of students following his pure research work in their spare time, until he had grown popular enough to have full-time research students, all of which would be working on “translating” his output into the current lingo. Senior mathematicians could then be working on proofs.
• 48:15 — Atheist

• 56:00 — Rationing

  • What was this war in Belgium? – Belgium in World War I
• 59:00 — There’s no sense of a lapse in time in this movie..
• 1:04:45 — Oh good, his healed bruises are at least some sign of time passing.
• 1:08:15 — Combinatorics
• 1:12:30 — Tuberculosis

• 1:14:30 — Koshi’s Theorem

  • I don’t know what this is.
• 1:24:00 — I don’t understand, why is he going to Oxford?
• 1:32:45 — Pure mathematics

• 1:42:30 —

  • Ramanujan’s lost notebook
  • Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony