The Man Who Knew Infinity

436 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:08,796 I want everything to be to your advantage 437 00:34:08,797 --> 00:34:11,799 so that we can be as productive as possible. 438 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:13,550 Thank you, Sir. 439 00:34:15,837 --> 00:34:17,221 Very nice paper. 440 00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:19,723 Well... 441 00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:23,093 Use it wisely. 442 00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:26,430 Well, I'll say good night, then. 443 00:34:39,661 --> 00:34:42,112 All right. Now... 444 00:34:42,113 --> 00:34:44,615 You. Are you following this? 445 00:34:44,616 --> 00:34:46,700 Yes, Sir. Most excitedly. 446 00:34:47,202 --> 00:34:48,335 But you don't appear to be taking any notes. 447 00:34:48,336 --> 00:34:50,096 Is there something you'd like to contribute? 448 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,373 Well, come on, then. 449 00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:55,259 Come on! 450 00:34:59,714 --> 00:35:01,048 You'll need the chalk. 451 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:28,542 But I... I hadn't completed that proof. 452 00:35:29,661 --> 00:35:30,661 How do you know? 453 00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,632 I don't know. I just do. 454 00:35:38,636 --> 00:35:40,971 Well, gentlemen, it appears that our time is up. 455 00:35:41,306 --> 00:35:42,806 Thank you for your attention. 456 00:35:55,770 --> 00:35:58,238 Not you. 457 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,741 Little wog, let me tell you something. 458 00:36:00,742 --> 00:36:03,861 You don't pull a stunt like that in my class. 459 00:36:03,862 --> 00:36:06,363 You don't belong here and you can tell your master Hardy 460 00:36:06,664 --> 00:36:07,998 I said as much! Now, get out! 461 00:37:32,617 --> 00:37:33,917 My sacred thread. 462 00:37:35,753 --> 00:37:37,704 It's to help ward off evil spirits. 463 00:37:39,207 --> 00:37:40,707 How did it work with Mr. Howard? 464 00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:44,428 I'm sorry, Sir. 465 00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:47,931 I got too excited. 466 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:50,717 Not a word often associated with his lectures. 467 00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:54,888 How did you know that theorem? 468 00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:57,524 It came to me. 469 00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:02,362 Mr. Hardy, I don't understand why we waste our time 470 00:38:02,864 --> 00:38:03,864 doing all these proofs. 471 00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:06,199 I have the formulas. 472 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,620 It's not that I can't see what you've claimed. 473 00:38:09,621 --> 00:38:11,989 It's that I'm not sure that you know how you got there 474 00:38:13,908 --> 00:38:15,709 or, indeed, that your claims are correct. 475 00:38:16,577 --> 00:38:18,078 There are subtleties which... 476 00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:19,663 But they are right, Sir. 477 00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:21,665 I have more important new ideas. 478 00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:24,668 Yes, but intuition is not enough. It has to be held accountable. 479 00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:30,674 And a little humility would go a long way. 480 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:41,652 Why do you think they want us to fail? 481 00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:45,605 Because I am Indian. 482 00:38:45,606 --> 00:38:48,108 Well, yeah, there is that. 483 00:38:48,109 --> 00:38:52,112 But also because of what we represent. 484 00:38:54,365 --> 00:38:57,250 Now, euler and jacobi. Who are they? 485 00:38:57,251 --> 00:38:58,752 Mathematicians. 486 00:38:58,753 --> 00:39:00,253 Just names to you. 487 00:39:00,254 --> 00:39:03,256 Euler was the most productive mathematician of the 18th century. 488 00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:05,759 Most of his work done after he was blind. 489 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,761 Jacobi, like you, was snatched from obscurity, 490 00:39:07,762 --> 00:39:09,763 and was almost as impressive as euler. 491 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:15,769 Now, I think you are in their class. 492 00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:19,272 What they had in common, what I see in you, is a love of form. 493 00:39:19,273 --> 00:39:21,024 It's all through your notebooks. 494 00:39:23,311 --> 00:39:24,528 Let me ask you something. 495 00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,781 Why do you do it, any of this? 496 00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:30,283 Because I have to. I see it. 497 00:39:31,319 --> 00:39:33,820 Like euler. Form for its own sake. 498 00:39:34,822 --> 00:39:36,823 An art unto itself. 499 00:39:37,825 --> 00:39:41,328 And, like all art, it reflects truth. 500 00:39:41,329 --> 00:39:43,830 It's the only truth I know. It's my church. 501 00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:46,833 And you, 502 00:39:46,834 --> 00:39:49,336 just as Mozart could hear an entire symphony in his head, 503 00:39:49,337 --> 00:39:50,837 you dance with numbers to infinity. 504 00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:54,758 But this dance, this art, 505 00:39:54,759 --> 00:39:57,594 does little to endear us to certain factions 506 00:39:57,595 --> 00:39:59,096 who see us as mere conjurors. 507 00:39:59,097 -...