SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN: The Mathematician & His Legacy  (Abridged Version)
Channel: Indian Diplomacy
Date: 2016-04-26

Each year, December 22nd is celebrated as the National Mathematical Day in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of the self-taught genius – Srinivasa Ramanujan whose work continues to intrigue, inspire and challenge mathematicians around the world.  His fertile mind envisioned a world where science and mathematics converge to uncover fundamental principles governing our universe.  Nearly a hundred years after his death, mathematics has slowly developed tools that are unraveling some of the secrets behind his intuitive suppositions. His oeuvre has opened up new vistas of possibilities, new branches of mathematics have sprouted and proliferated and found application in different fields of sciences, implausible in his own times. The Film brings together his life on screen, with period enactments, interviews and animation.