Don't let minor disappointments come your way and keep following your passion. Who says failure should be the dead-end in a person's life! This man is an inspiration for many that temporary failure can't ever decide your future. As a young man, he failed to get a degree, as he did not clear his fine arts courses, although he always performed exceptionally well in mathematics. While others were involved in sports, it was math which caught his interest at a tender age. It is an obvious fact that being a nerd, it became difficult for Ramanujan to gel with kids of his age. He never had any friends in school because his peers rarely understood him at school & were always in awe of his mathematical acumen! When Ramanujan was thirteen, he could work out Loney’s Trigonometry exercises without any help!īy the age of 13, he had completed advanced trigonometry and discovered complex theorems on his own! Feeling numerically dyslexic already? 2. However, how well do you know this great man? Not at all? So, here are 7 most bizarre and unique facts about the man who found life and romance in the beauty of numbers and theorems! 1. Based on the life of Ramanujan, there is a lot of buzz surrounding the film. Shooting of the film began in August 2014 at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hardy and Devika Bhise plays Ramanujan’s wife. Even though the world-wide release date of the film hasn't been announced, the film premiered at the TIFF 2015 (Toronto International Film Festival)!ĭirected by Matt Brown, he used his own written script to treat the film. Dev Patel plays Srinivasa Ramanujan, Jeremy Irons plays G. He died at the age of 33 on April 20, 1920, but even in his short-lived life, he became Mozart of mathematics! Greatness of this man might have been forgotten but thanks to film fraternity for evoking life to this by making a film. Irrespective of having little or no access to having exposure to advance mathematics, he turned out to be one hell of a genius as a kid! As most child prodigies, if not all, Ramanujan could not survive for long. Ramanujan was a child prodigy, and a mathematical genius.