NOVA · Season 15 · Episode 9

“The Man Who Loved Numbers”

Aired Wednesday 23 March 1988

Tells the story of the brilliant Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and of his brief association at Trinity College in England with the English mathematicians G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood. His full potential was never realized because of his tragic death from illness in India at age 32.

S15 E9 discussion