The Man Who Knew Infinity Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2015
- 108 min
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You know, he single-handedly reformed
the entire Tripos examination system.
Turned over hundreds of years of history.
He's your man.
Trinity, eh?
Kings, prime ministers.
Isaac Newton. Byron.
Now perhaps even you.
(SIR FRANCIS CHUCKLES)
(BELL TOLLING)
Hmm.
Trouble on the Continent?
There will be.
We beat the Frogs by a goal at Twickenham.
I meant in the Balkans.
Ah, the Balkans.
You've got one
there seems particularly well traveled.
MAN:
Do you think it's another hoax?HARDY:
Hmm."I beg to introduce myself
as a clerk in the Accounts Department."
- What this time?
- Quite impressive, really.
Someone's gone to a lot of trouble.
A Hindu clerk!
And who claims he can give meaning
to the negative values
of the gamma function.
- Littlewood?
- Without doubt.
(SCOFFS)
You know, Littlewood,
this year alone,
I've received correspondence
from those who profess
to prove the
prophetic wisdom of the Pyramids,
the revelations of the Elders of Zion,
and the cryptograms,
which Bacon supposedly buried
within the plays
of the so-called Shakespeare.
But a letter from
an ill-educated Indian clerk in Madras,
challenging assertions
I made in the tracts series,
really takes the biscuit.
Well, I have to say,
I've made similar assertions myself.
So you admit it?
No, no, no. I'm talking about the letter.
Bloody brilliant, I thought.
I don't know where you got the postmark.
Almost had me fooled.
(STUTTERING) I simply don't know
what you're talking about.
Oh, come on. I'm not a complete idiot.
I don't know how to get this
into your thick skull,
but whatever it is you're talking about,
I'm simply not involved.
Play.
Sir.
You've missed Hall.
Not hungry.
(SIGHS)
I tell you,
there is a war coming, no doubt about it.
Because we are being
led like mindless, spineless sheep
and no one bothers to question any of it.
It's coming, all right. You can smell it.
You're as paranoid as Hardy.
(SCOFFS) With all due respect, Bertie,
you couldn't hold a candle.
Littlewood, could I have a word?
Yes, of course.
LITTLEWOOD:
Integrals.Infinite series.
God knows what else.
Oh, excuse me.
I always forget
you don't believe in a supreme being.
Right.
If this chap turns out to be genuine, you
might have to reconsider.
He must be genuine.
Who would have
the imagination to invent all that?
Well, I'm rather
flattered you thought I did.
(LAUGHS)
These two infinite series
are the more intriguing.
Yeah. They defeated me completely.
I've never seen anything like them.
Well, it's deceptive.
I'll wager the hypergeometric series.
Ha! Our great Littlewood, stumped.
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