Partition
I went with Praveen to see the play Partition, which is about the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan. The play was beautifully produced by the Aurora Theatre (a smaller theater in the arts district in Berkeley), and the classicist character Billington was just wonderful (approximately: "I daresay that by the twenty-first century, a literary education will consist only of Latin!"). I thought the play was harsh toward G. H. Hardy. It presented him in what seemed to be a very extreme way.
You would get the impression from the play that Ramanujan and Hardy hardly managed to work together at all. In fact, they co-authored several significant papers. They were productive together and they did not fail to do great mathematical work. I'm afraid the play oversimplified their relationship in search of a depiction of one particular aspect of it.
In the play, Ramanujan complains that "this is not about East versus West", yet Partition often seems to stress cultural differences (and interpersonal conflict) at the expense of depicting useful collaboration and exchange. The play almost seems to claim that Ramanujan had to die before Hardy could have a real relationship or collaboration with anyone -- a very strong conclusion about an actual person and one I'm not sure can be justified by history.
In general, the play and the production were brilliant and highly amusing. It could be improved (at a cost of an extra hour or so) by adding some more nuance to Hardy's and Ramanujan's relationship to show that it wasn't completely dysfunctional.
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