Marvellous! I really enjoyed the acting, the story (maybe 'cause I'm a maths geek) and the overall production. Strongly recommend it (4/5). OK it's a biopic, bit formulaic in places, but I'd never heard of Srinivasa Ramanujan before watching and he was one heck of a mathematician.
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wheypat wrote:Marvellous! I really enjoyed the acting, the story (maybe 'cause I'm a maths geek) and the overall production. Strongly recommend it (4/5). OK it's a biopic, bit formulaic in places, but I'd never heard of Srinivasa Ramanujan before watching and he was one heck of a mathematician.
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Ramanujan? Nice little story there, from another era. Hardy's Mathematician's Apology was one of the seminal influences that led to my young self going to study maths at Cambridge. What did they do with the anecdote about 1729?
Have to say though, the title should more fittingly apply to Zeno - the man who sprang to mind when I read your thread title. He who gave us the logic of infinitesimals: paradoxes of the ancients, and the foundations for the calculus of more recent times.
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UncleEbenezer wrote:Ramanujan? Nice little story there, from another era. Hardy's Mathematician's Apology was one of the seminal influences that led to my young self going to study maths at Cambridge. What did they do with the anecdote about 1729?
Have to say though, the title should more fittingly apply to Zeno - the man who sprang to mind when I read your thread title. He who gave us the logic of infinitesimals: paradoxes of the ancients, and the foundations for the calculus of more recent times.
The 1729 quote was in there No spoilers!
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wrt Ramanujan people may find the following interesting too
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss1j4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071skpm
and in fact just this week (Tuesday!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087qjzg
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss1j4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071skpm
and in fact just this week (Tuesday!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087qjzg
didds
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