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Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
by kenjackson 4y ago
Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
- gavagai691 4y agoThere is a documentary, but I can't attest to its quality (I haven't watched it yet): http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingabout.html http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingabout.html.
- kenjackson 4y agoHmm... thanks, it looks quite good. But why is streaming rental for 24 hours? Why can't we do rentals for two weeks for videos? Is there a good reason to make it so difficult to stream? I don't want to watch it a million times. I just want to make it through once, but it takes me several sittings typically to finish a movie.
- gavagai691 4y agoI was thinking about watching this documentary two years ago. That sounds like the reason that I decided not to.
- mikeyouse 4y agoLooks like it's available on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/countingfrominfinityyitangzhangandthetwinprimeconjecture2015documentary7au3cikb2za https://archive.org/details/countingfrominfinityyitangzhanga...
- Cthulhu_ 4y ago> But why is streaming rental for 24 hours? Money / capitalism.
- SantalBlush 4y agoSadly, they would probably make it a schmaltzy Oscar-grab of a movie, like they did with Ramanujan's story.
- lupire 4y agoThe Eternal Triangle, With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoGood luck finding a movie about Isaac Newton or Einstein, or literally anyone whose value to the world is more than pretending to be someone else or lying a lot, let alone a very interesting mathematician no one recognizes. (Ok I know there’s a few movies about folks like Turing and Nash, but it’s pretty slim pickings).
- joenot443 4y agoThere have been many, many films made about Srinivasa Ramanujan. I'd particularly recommend the 2015 one, The Man Who Knew Infinity, I found it super charming.
- SantalBlush 4y agoAnd the movies about figures like these that do exist seem to have roughly the same story, relying heavily on the "socially inept genius" trope.
- 149764 4y agoThere is a tv show about Einstein, well, only the first season is about him.
- arrow7000 4y agoWhich one?
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- defrost 4y agoN Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a decent enough documentary about a specific mathematician. Colors of Math breezes across six contemporary mathematicians.
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- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoI hope to see a movie about Perelman, too.
- hubatrix 4y agoThere is a documentary: Counting from Infinity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBADiHU_0Wg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBADiHU_0Wg
- ekianjo 4y agoWhy everything has to be a movie?