Ramanujan Full Movie

Posted on 21-04-2021 by admin

Rating: 7.6/10
Director: Matt Brown
Writer: Matt Brown (screenplay), Matt Brown, Robert Kanigel (biography)
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 29 Apr 2016

Synopsis: In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India’s greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds.
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

When self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan fails out of college, he does not give up hope. Determined to pursue his passion, he contacts Professor GH Hardy. In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian genius, traveled to Cambridge where he forged a lifelong bond with his eccentric math professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), while fighting a world that refused to acknowledge his achievements. Ramanujan’s knowledge of mathematics (most of which he had worked out for himself) was startling. Although he was almost completely unaware of modern developments in mathematics, his mastery of continued fractions was unequaled by any living mathematician. He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his.

Review: He was a dumpy sort of guy, unlike the young star who portrays him in this film, Dev Patel, but that really doesn’t matter, since hardly anyone has a mental picture of Ramanujan – even if they’ve heard of him. It’s a great story and so far untold on screen, of a born maths genius from Madras, who even at the age of 7 was revealing mathematical formulas of some complexity. What matters more than the physical portrayal is the character portrayal and the way his experience defied his circumstances and the social culture of the era.

His determination was sometimes mistaken for ego, and this is well portrayed in Matt Brown’s film, while his transition from life within Indian culture to 1913-1920 Cambridge society is perfunctory, one of the film’s weaker points.

Adapted from Robert Kanigel’s biography, the film begins and ends in Madras, as did Ramanujan’s life. Patel is a brilliant choice, especially playing opposite Jeremy Irons as his mentor at Cambridge, Professor Hardy, a man his total opposite emotionally and spiritually. Where Ramanujan is deeply religious and believes his intuitive and remarkable solutions to mathematical mysteries come direct from his god, Hardy is an atheist. Where Ramanujan is quite an emotional and impulsive character, Hardy is measured, reticent and meticulous. Yet they grow to be the closest of friends either has ever had.

It is in the development of this friendship that the film excels and makes us care for them both, giving the biography depth and texture. We are moved.

We are also moved by the performance of newcomer Devika Bhise as Janaki, Ramanujan’s pretty young wife, who is left behind with his mother when he goes to fulfill his destiny. There are heartbreaking moments when letters between the couple fail to reach their destination, prompting emotional misunderstandings about the relationship. Toby Jones is excellent as another great mathematician at Cambridge, John Littlewood, and Britain’s finest make brief but welcome appearances: Stephen Fry as snooty Sir Francis Spring and Jeremy Northam as the (not yet great) Bertrand Russell.

The various elements of the film – screenplay, direction, music, design, editing, cinematography – are all competent and effective, but it is the central performances that elevate the film to something of lasting value.

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It is one of the most romantic stories in the history of mathematics:in 1913, the English mathematician G. H. Hardy received a strangeletter from an unknown clerk in Madras, India. The ten-page lettercontained about 120 statements of theorems on infinite series, improper integrals, continued fractions, and number theory (Here is a .dvi file with a sample of these results). Every prominentmathematician gets letters from cranks, and at first glance Hardy nodoubt put this letter in that class. But something about theformulas made him take a second look, and show it to his collaboratorJ. E. Littlewood. After a few hours, they concluded that theresults 'must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them'.

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Thus was Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) introduced to the mathematicalworld. Born in South India, Ramanujan was a promising student, winningacademic prizes in high school. But at age 16 his life took a decisiveturn after he obtained a book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Resultsin Pure and Applied Mathematics. The book was simply a compilationof thousands of mathematical results, most set down with little or noindication of proof. It was in no sense a mathematical classic; rather,it was written as an aid to coaching English mathematics students facingthe notoriously difficult Tripos examination, which involved agreat deal of wholesale memorization. But in Ramanujan it inspireda burst of feverish mathematical activity, as he worked through thebook's results and beyond. Unfortunately, his total immersion in mathematics was disastrous for Ramanujan's academic career: ignoringall his other subjects, he repeatedly failed his college exams.

As a college dropout from a poor family, Ramanujan's position was precarious. He lived off the charity of friends, filling notebooks withmathematical discoveries and seeking patrons to support his work. Finally he met with modest successwhen the Indian mathematician Ramachandra Rao provided him with firsta modest subsidy, and later a clerkship at the Madras Port Trust.During this period Ramanujan had his first paper published, a 17-pagework on Bernoulli numbers that appeared in 1911 in the Journal ofthe Indian Mathematical Society. Still no one was quite sure ifRamanujan was a real genius or a crank. With the encouragement of friends, he wrote to mathematicians in Cambridge seeking validation ofhis work. Twice he wrote with no response; on the third try, he found Hardy.

Hardy wrote enthusiastically back to Ramanujan, and Hardy's stampof approval improved Ramanujan's status almost immediately. Ramanujanwas named a research scholar at the University of Madras, receivingdouble his clerk's salary and required only to submit quarterly reports on his work. But Hardy was determined that Ramanujan bebrought to England. Ramanujan's mother resisted at first--high-casteIndians shunned travel to foreign lands--but finally gave in, ostensiblyafter a vision. In March 1914, Ramanujan boarded a steamer for England.

Ramanujan's arrival at Cambridge was the beginning of a very successfulfive-year collaboration with Hardy. In some ways the two made an oddpair: Hardy was a great exponent of rigor in analysis, while Ramanujan'sresults were (as Hardy put it) 'arrived at by a process of mingled argument,intuition, and induction, of which he was entirely unable to give anycoherent account'. Hardy did his best to fill in the gaps in Ramanujan'seducation without discouraging him. He was amazed by Ramanujan's uncannyformal intuition in manipulating infinite series, continued fractions,and the like: 'I have never met his equal, and can compare him only withEuler or Jacobi.'

One remarkable result of the Hardy-Ramanujan collaboration was a formulafor the number p(n) of partitions of a number n. A partitionof a positive integer n is just an expression for n as a sum of positive integers, regardless of order. Thus p(4) = 5 because 4 canbe written as 1+1+1+1, 1+1+2, 2+2, 1+3, or 4. The problem of findingp(n) was studied by Euler, who found aformula for the generating function of p(n) (that is, for theinfinite series whose nth term is p(n)xⁿ).While this allows one to calculate p(n) recursively, it doesn'tlead to an explicit formula. Hardy and Ramanujan came up with such aformula (though they only proved it works asymptotically; Rademacher proved it gives the exact value of p(n)).

Ramanujan's years in England were mathematically productive, andhe gained the recognition he hoped for. Cambridge granted him aBachelor of Science degree 'by research' in 1916, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (the first Indian to be so honored) in 1918.But thealien climate and culture took a toll on his health. Ramanujan hadalways lived in a tropical climate and had his mother (later his wife)to cook for him: now he faced the English winter, and he had to doall his own cooking to adhere to his caste's strict dietary rules.Wartime shortages only made things worse. In 1917 he was hospitalized,his doctors fearing for his life. By late 1918 his health had improved;he returned to India in 1919. But his health failed again, and hedied the next year.

Besides his published work,Ramanujan left behind several notebooks, which have been the objectof much study. The English mathematician G. N. Watson wrote a long series of papers about them. More recently the American mathematician Bruce C. Berndt has written a multi-volume study of the notebooks.In 1997 The Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work'in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan'.