Question

UPSC Prelims 2016 Question:

A recent movie titled The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on the biography of

1. S. Ramanujan
2. S. Chandrasekhar
3. S. N. Bose
4. C. V. Raman

Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 1: S. Ramanujan

Detailed Solution

Explanation:

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician born and raised in Madras, India. He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
The Man Who Knew Infinity was a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.

Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.

Knowledge Box

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who spent his professional life in the United States. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate. He is honored as the namesake of the boson. Although more than one Nobel Prize was awarded for research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensate — the latest being the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was given for advancing the theory of Bose-Einstein condensates, Bose himself was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born at Tiruchirappalli in Southern India on November 7th, 1888. His earliest researches in optics and acoustics – the two fields of investigation to which he has dedicated his entire career – were carried out while he was a student. Raman has been honored with a large number of honorary doctorates and memberships of scientific societies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924), and was knighted in 1929. He was known for his work in the field of light scattering. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect, for which he was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

Subject: Science & Technology | Miscellaneous(s&t)

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