Ramanujan mentioned in Good Will Hunting

November 30, 2007 · Filed Under Legends · 3 Comments 

Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. He was a poor and sickly Hindu Brahmin from the Tamil Nadu state of south India, who was not lucky to have any fancy degrees. But he was a math wizard and numbers were his toys. His genius was spotted by Hardy, another of the species from England. And the association brought the genius to the eyes of the world through Cambridge.

Ramanujam’s pioneering work is the embryo from which the present day digital world has spawned itself!

In the 1997 film, “Good Will Hunting” about another math genius portrayed by Matt Damon (as Will Hunting) who was an autodidact and a recluse , a mention about Ramanujan had been made by Prof. Gerald Lambeau (Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd) in a very appropriately fitting context. Here is the video clipping showing that episode:-
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