2 points | by squircle 20 hours ago ago
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The film that prompted this is "The Man Who Knew Infinity"[0], a film based on Ramanujan's[1] work as a mathematician.
I think it's a fabulous film. It's fiction, but it captures a lot of truth about mathematician's and how they work.
FWIW, Bollobás[2] supervised my PhD, and Ramanujan was spoken about regularly, including Erdős's[3] opinions, so I have some insight.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bollob%C3%A1s
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
The film that prompted this is "The Man Who Knew Infinity"[0], a film based on Ramanujan's[1] work as a mathematician.
I think it's a fabulous film. It's fiction, but it captures a lot of truth about mathematician's and how they work.
FWIW, Bollobás[2] supervised my PhD, and Ramanujan was spoken about regularly, including Erdős's[3] opinions, so I have some insight.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bollob%C3%A1s
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s