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Béla Bollobás explains the significance of Indian mathematician Ramanujan (1963) [video] (youtube.com)
2 points by squircle 42 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The film that prompted this is "The Man Who Knew Infinity"[0], a film based on Ramanujan's[1] work as a mathematician.

I think it's a fabulous film. It's fiction, but it captures a lot of truth about mathematician's and how they work.

FWIW, Bollobás[2] supervised my PhD, and Ramanujan was spoken about regularly, including Erdős's[3] opinions, so I have some insight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bollob%C3%A1s

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s




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