25 May
2016
25 May
'16
5:31 p.m.
="Simon Plouffe" <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> the film : The man who knew infinity went out, with Jeremy Irons as G.H. Hardy.
Saw it, liked it. Mostly a well-crafted cinematic study in the contrasting characters of Hardy and Ramanujan. It couldn't really delve into the maths much, of course, but should appeal to general audiences. At least it works in the taxicab number. A bit melodramatic, pack your handkerchiefs. BTW: in the film they consistently pronounce Ramanujan like "ra-ma-new-jun", which was how I originally learnt to pronounce it, before I was corrected(?) by someone to say it "raman-uh-jun". Does anyone know the definitive way?