World Mathematics Day: 5 Films that captured love for numbers

World Maths Day emerged from an online international mamatics competition, powered by educational resource provider 3P Learning. day was first observed on March 14, 2007 (Pi Day), and has been held on 1st Wednesday in March in subsequent years. Day created a Guinness World Record for Largest Online Maths Competition in 2010. Though maths is considered a terror amongst most of students, once one learns beauty of it, it is on one's fingertips. same was preached by many on silver screen with movies on various real-life mamaticians who learned magic of numbers and serve as an example for students who fear it. 

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Shakuntala Devi-Human Computer

On occasion of World Mamatics Day, Bollywood actor Vidya Balan who is all set to essay role of maths genius Shakuntala Devi in upcoming biopic- 'Shakuntala Devi-Human Computer', shared an intriguing math problem on social media. Paying tribute to Shakuntala Devi, she shared a video on Instagram where she asked fans to solve a 'simple yet interesting' equation.  "This World Mamatics Day, celebrating woman who me math fun," wrote Vidya Balan on releasing teaser of her upcoming film. Slated for a 2020 release, movie is based on life of mamatical genius of same name who was able to make incredibly swift calculations on her fingertips. 

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Man Who Knew Infinity

Man Who Knew Infinity is a biographical drama based on Indian mamatician Srinivasa Ramanujan. film's script follows a book by same name. Actor Dev Patel plays character of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mamatician who, after growing up poor in Mras, India, earns mittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mamatical ories with guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons. It h its world premiere as a gala presentation at 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was selected as opening gala of 2015 Zurich Film Festival.

Imitation Game

Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama directed by Morten Tyldum. It is  based on biography Alan Turing: Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Turing decrypted German intelligence messs for British government during Second World War which is played by  Benedict Cumberbatch. film grossed over $233 million worldwide on a $14 million production budget, making it highest-grossing independent film of 2014. It won Best apted Screenplay at 87th Acemy Awards and People's Choice Award at 39th Toronto International Film Festival.

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Pi (film)

Pi is a 1998 American neo-ir psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Arofsky. As it was filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film, it earned Arofsky Directing Award at 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and Gotham Open Palm Award. screenplay explores mes of religion, mysticism, and relationship of universe to mamatics based on mamatical value pi. story is about a mamatician with an obsession to find underlying complete order in real world.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is an American biographical drama film based on life of John Nash. film was directed by Ron Howard and was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-minated 1998 book of same name by Sylvia Nasar. Russell Crowe plays Nash and is accompanied by Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, am Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. film went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and won four Acemy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best apted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. It was also minated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.

(With inputs from ANI)

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