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2016.05.22 ⋅ Some Questions about the Recurse Center.2016.11.01 ⋅ The English Level of This Year's Principal Presidential Candidates.2016.11.15 ⋅ Python decorators for object-oriented method behaviors.2017.06.25 ⋅ John Holt on learning in mid-life and the role of the teacher (1978).Please enable JavaScript to view the Disqus comments. It's nice to see attention paid to the proper pronunciation of someone's name, and that issue figured in the plot. It is not acceptable, and I keep meaning to write a about this. The 2014 Turing movie “Imitation Game” disturbed me because of these issues - it seems to be thought quite acceptable to present a completely fictional Alan Turing for some reason that I can't understand. Some of this stuff is actually documented as part of Ramanujan's life and experiences, and the issues are worth talking about when they correspond to real life.īut I'm struggling against over-familiarity with these commonplaces. suddenly the whole thing came to me in a flash.young genius taught a lesson (or mostly so) by older hands.The main ones are listed below this spoiler-line: This was not a bad movie, although I was annoyed that the actor playing Ramanujan really doesn't look anything like the historical character.īut the movie contains certain narrative formulas that have begun to irritate me a lot in movies about people who are good at math and other sorts of abstract thinking. ⋅ By David Prager Branner ( Recurse Center alumn) ⋅ Sat ⋅ RSS ⋅ Search & : “The Man Who Knew Infinity” - 2015 movie about Ramanujan “The Man Who Knew Infinity” - 2015 movie about Ramanujan & (verbiage overflow)

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