Synopsis: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns. A moving and star-studded tale of genius and culture, The Man Who Knew Infinity is most of all a tribute to the remarkable relationship between Ramanujan and Hardy, which grew from student/teacher to friends and peers. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a film directed by Matt Brown with Dev Patel.
Overcoming racism, class issues and the overwhelming cultural gap between Colonial India and its colonizer, England, Ramanujan sets about transforming the traditional world of mathematics, not to mention the even more formal world of Cambridge.
Hardy at Cambridge University during the early twentieth century. The book offers a detailed, even exhaustive account of Ramanujan’s upbringing in India, his contributions to the field of mathematics, and his collaboration with the British G.H. Hardy (Irons), who takes a chance and brings the young man to the UK. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 1991 biography of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, written by Robert Kanigel. Hi For this post, I thought I would take a break from posting math riddles and take a brief moment to draw your attention to an exciting new movie premiering in the United States this week The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan directed by Matthew Brown, based on the book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The definitive film on Ramanujan remains to. Thus everything that follows is clearly signposted as a Very Important Story. The Man Who Knew Infinity is moving, but not as compelling as the real life story of the genius it celebrates. The life of mathematics revolutionary Srinivasa Ramanujan (Patel, Slumdog Millionaire The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) is as eye-opening as his work: born into a poor family, he drops out of college to follow his obsession with math, and in 1914, writes of his theories to the Cambridge scholar G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) in an office alone at night, staring out a rain-pelted window looking contemplative, with pensive voice over narration reflecting on how he knows and feels too much. Owens Award, SFIFF 2014), which follows such films as A Beautiful Mind and The Theory of Everything in its inspirational look at the struggles-and triumphs-of genius.
A self-taught Indian prodigy from Madras arrives in Cambridge to revolutionize the field of mathematics in this biopic starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons (Peter J.