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...