![]() However, Hardy managed to see past his own style and became Ramanujan's best supporter. Hardy was the opposite as the Indian mathematician: he was atheist, while Ramanujan was deeply religious he championed formalism and pure proofs, while the other basically guessed (right) deep results and did not care about technical details. Many mathematicians were skeptic of his true abilities, but came around after making direct contact with him. Most of his work relied on epiphanies he had during spiritual meditation. Ramanujan had no formal education in mathematics. Among his recipients, was Godfrey Hardy, a brilliant researcher of mathematical analysis and number theory. In 1913, Ramanujan took the initiative and started sending letters to English mathematicians, for support and advice. He found one in accountancy, a trivial job for his abilities which left him with much spare time to continue his studies. At age 21, he married and got to search for a real job. His thrive to study mathematics and only mathematics led him to extreme poverty and corrupted his health. He tried to enrol in another college, with same results. Basically he was re-building mathematics from almost scratch! He won a college scholarship, but he was so focused on mathematics that he performed poorly in other subjects and lost it. in He showed a lively interest in mathematics already at the age of 11, and by the age of 15 he was able to master advanced notions and carry on his own research, often on known results he was not aware of. He was born and lived the first part of his life in (British) India, in the region of Madras. He was what you'd call a true genius, an independent thinker who could not bend to the typical mathematical formalism nor to social conventions. The movie depicts the story of one of the finest minds of last century and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Thank you Youtube suggestions! Today I came across this trailer of an upcoming movie, " The man who knew infinity". ![]()
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