Ken Ono, Ph.D., the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, will give a public lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a math prodigy from south India who was born into poverty, lived between 1887 and 1920, and whose three notebooks of formulas continues to be mined by engineers, physicists and mathematicians today.

Ono will discuss why Ramanujan continues to matter and will share clips from the 2015 film, “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. Ono served as an associate producer and mathematical consultant for the film.