Message: 5 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:21:04 +0530 From: Shripad Garge <smgarge@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [math-fun] Ramanujan, the movie (?) Message-ID: <CABKQidE4zFK2OoVcoMNPTJHLJNJfPsffuFxcagiE-rA=ygu+HA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Dear Warren,

?Could you please explain what kind of endorsements were you expecting and why you guess that this movie will be horrible?

Warm regards, Shripad. ?

--I wasn't expecting anything. Why will it be horrible? I do not know if it will be, but I (unfortunately) saw 2 movies about "math geniuses" namely ""Good Will Hunting" about a fictional math wiz, and "Wonderful mind" about John Nash, and they both were really bad. And conveying what Ramanujan did in a movie probably is harder than conveying the stuff Nash did (not that the movie even tried to convey Nash's main accomplishments, but I claim it would have been possible to at least some extent). Actually I once was seated right between John Nash & John Milnor at a dinner (Nobel & Fields Medal, respectively) and it was one of the most boring dinners ever :)