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Books and Arts
Nature 449, 25-26 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449025a; Published online 5 September 2007
An act of communal imagination
Abstract
A Disappearing Number, a play exploring the partnership between mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, opens in London this week. It is the latest of several astonishing works devised by leading international theatre company Complicite, marbled with science and technology. Artistic director Simon McBurney tells Nature about the results of his most recent round of collaboration and experimentation.
What drew you to the tale of Hardy, the maths professor, and Ramanujan, his self-taught Indian protégé?I grew up in Cambridge, surrounded by academics' stories of brilliant people, including these two.
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