The life of the Genius

 
 
The Man who new Infinity. What a gem of a movie. I fell in love, all over again, with Mathematics.
I went right home after movie and looked up Newton's, Euler's, Jacobi, Hardy, Bernoulli... and the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan's biography and work.

The movie is an extraordinary cinema for its sheer beauty in simplicity and authenticity in visuals, cinematography and intriguing story telling.

Must watch and do not forget to take a bow! Maths lovers or not.

Inspiration from this genius' life: Persistence, Following your calling, Will power and Assertiveness. Mathematics is both an art and science.

My favorite quotes of S Ramanujan -

Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was “dull”: No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103.

"An equation to me is meaningless if it does not express a thought of God".

"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum. I am now about 23 years of age. … After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics"

I found something common to Ramanujan's story I realize. I too write as it comes to me. In another words I am an emotional writer. When I have a profound feeling about something at sometime I have to write it at that time for best results. That is why most of my posts seem raw. Writing is like a calling. Sometimes I get something so strong in my mind in the middle of the night or while driving that I am tempted to wake up or pull over and starting noting it down somewhere so I can develop it later.

Like he gets the formulae first and then details the proofs later. I get these most stunning, revealing ideas that I want to write about at the most unusual times. There was many time I wished I had a sound recorder. I'd at least speak out what is in my head and record for later.

I wished there was some form of enabling to record what's on your mind to replay it later.

May be in the future, may be soon.

Until then, I will blurt out what came to me and then I will continue to revisit my writings, refine and redevelop until I am satisfied the post has served its purpose.

What's your calling? What comes to you? :)

This post has thus served its purpose now.

Enjoy the movie!

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