A Disappearing Number

A Disappearing Number tells the true story of Cambridge professor GH Hardy’s extraordinary collaboration with Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician from Chennai who, with almost no formal training, made some of the most important mathematical discoveries of the 20th century.

Interwoven with the modern-day tale of mathematician Ruth and her bemused but devoted husband, the play is a celebration of the questions that lie beneath our understanding of the world, and, above all, the beauty of numbers.

A Complicité co-production with barbicanbite07, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.

© Joris-Jan Bos