Science on Screen: The Man Who Knew Infinity

Part of a national “Science on Screen” program, this is the second of three events pairing a feature film with a science expert who will speak about current scientific research or technological advances surrounding the film’s topic.

Topic: Intuition, paradoxes, and proof.
Inspired by the story of Ramanujan’s famously brilliant intuition, this talk will discuss paradoxes, which arise from the failure of human intuition and resolve only through the rigor of mathematical reasoning. Many of the puzzles appear as part of the Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative, an international collaboration between The Man Who Knew Infinity and Pittsburgh-based technology startup Expii. http://expii.com/ramanujan

Discussion with: Po-Shen Loh,  a math enthusiast and evangelist. He is the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team, a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of expii.com, an education technology startup providing a free personalized learning platform on every smartphone.

Film: The Man Who Knew Infinity, the true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where over the course of five years, forged a bond with his mentor, the brilliant and eccentric professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world. (Matthew Brown; UK; 2016; 108 min)

Doors Open: 6:30pm
Discussion: 7:00pm
Screening: 7:30pm
Tickets: $8.00