Collaboration with Scuola Media Corsi on a project for the next Ramanujan Prize Ceremony: call for written contributions.

[Infopoint]

Dear Scientist and Staff,


ICTP and Scuola Media Corsi are following up their fruitful 
collaboration in staging the plays /Nikola Tesla/, /Hypathia,/ and 
/Rossum's Universal Robots/ by working together again, this time on a 
video project.


A 20 minute video will be produced, to be shown on the occasion of the 
*Ramanujan Prize 2016* Ceremony, on November 4.

The video, in the form of brief interviews with students and scientists, 
will be based on a script, written in collaboration with ICTP scientists 
and staff, so we are asking for your ideas and contributions.


The subject will be "Creativity".


The idea came from the recent release of the biographical movie on 
Ramanujan (1887-1920) /The Man Who Knew Infinity/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_(film) 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_%28film%29>


There is a rich bibliography on this extraordinary mathematician. 
Interesting literature is available in your Library (see references below).

ICTP scientists / staffare invited to contribute with a text of *600 
characters max* (please no more than that!) expressing their thoughts on 
one or more of the following questions:


    ·Where is creativity to be found?

    ·Where does an idea come from?

    ·Is school necessary or not?

    ·How do you recognize a good idea?

    ·Are ideas better born working alone or in groups?


It is suggested, but not necessary, that the contributions focus on 
mathematical creativity. Personal thoughts on creativity at large would 
fit as well. You may also be inspired by the Ramanujan Prize Award 
itself http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ramanujan-prize.aspx


Contributions in the author's /native language/ are encouraged, and they 
should be accompanied by an English version. The video will be subtitled 
both in English and Italian.


The texts received will be put together and edited into a script by 
students and teachers of Scuola Corsi, and then the interviews will be 
filmed at ICTP. The video will include some musical inserts.


Schedule:

*As soon as possible*: contact us to express your interest

        /Zina Makkawi (zmakkawi at ictp.it)
        Nicoletta Zar (zar at ictp.it) /

*20 September*: deadline for receiving written contributions

*10 to 14 October*: filming of the interviews


Thank you.


Zina Makkawi

Nicoletta Zar (ext. 215)


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/Literature on Ramanujan available in your Library /

Ramanujan's notebooks

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000045652&local_base=WEBALL 
<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys%3D000045652&local_base=WEBALL#http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000045652&local_base=WEBALL>


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys%3D000045652&local_base=WEBALL#http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000045652&local_base=WEBALL>

The indian clerk by David Leavitt, 2007

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000105730&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000105730&local_base=WEBALL>

The man who knew infinity by Robert Kanigel, 1992

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000078824&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000078824&local_base=WEBALL>

The mathematical legacy of Srinivasa Ramanuian, by Murty, Maruti Ram, 2013

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000106007&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000106007&local_base=WEBALL>

My search for Ramanujan, by Ono Ken, 2016

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000111251&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000111251&local_base=WEBALL>

Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys, 2001

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000056713&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000056713&local_base=WEBALL>

Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary, 1995

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000044566&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000044566&local_base=WEBALL>

Ramanujan: the man and the mathematician, 2009

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000107884&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000107884&local_base=WEBALL>

Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work, 1999

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000052481&local_base=WEBALL


<http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000052481&local_base=WEBALL>

Ramanujan's place in the world of mathematics, 2013

http://cat.ictp.it/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=000106016&local_base=WEBALL

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