In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematicians opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. The film’s epigraph, “Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”, derives from Ramanujan’s contemporary in the groves of academe, Bertrand Russell (Jeremy Northam, suitably stiff-upper-lip). The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. The whiny wall-to-wall background music score is a major deterrent. The movie contains some racially inspired violence and some positive references to the Hindu religion, but makes a strong case for the existence of God-created order in the universe. Ramanujan has to also contend with racial discrimination from members of the university’s governing body as well as misguided youngsters enlisted in the army. THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is the story of a mathematical genius from India going to Cambridge University in England during World War I.
Scenes showing British soldiers writhing in tents are perfunctory. Read: Dev Patel on the man who knew infinityĬoncurrently, the Great War erupts in Europe. There are several awkward transitions to Ramanujan’s native dwelling place where his mother (Arundathi Nag) and young bride (Devika Bhise) appear to have agreed upon a tenuous truce. Matt Brown’s workmanlike direction ties things up neatly but fails to elicit enough empathy for the central characters of the young number-cruncher and his tutor-cum-collaborator. Tragically, Ramanujan died of tuberculosis at the age of 32, barely a year after his return to India. Mark Zuckerberg, Pichai to form foundation for Ramanujam after watching 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'. THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY (2016) - Trailer - HD. Read: Why this film is important for mathematics The Man Who Knew Infinity TRAILER (2016) Fresh Movie Trailers. Without any formal training but with an intuitive aptitude for equations and theorems, the Indian math prodigy (Patel, fairly affecting) was encouraged by the English academic (Irons) to come up with proofs to back up his formulae. It is the Oscar-winning actor’s (Reversal of Fortune, 1990) dynamic characterisation of the celebrated Cambridge scholar GH Hardy that sets The Man Who Knew Infinity apart from other recent by-the-numbers biopics.Ī prestige production in the James Ivory-Ismail Merchant mould, the film chronicles the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Madras-born mathematician whose unparalleled flair for numbers was honed during his time at the hallowed Trinity College back in the 1910s.
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