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The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.
- Robert Kanigel
- 1991
May 7, 2016 · The latest maths biopic is The Man Who Knew Infinity, about Indian mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who shocked and surprised the English mathematical establishment at the start of the 20th century by the depth and originality of his research in additive number theory.
Apr 7, 2016 · It’s a true story, allowing for the enhanced rhetoric you get from Cinema Blighty when darling Cambridge — its dreaming spires, its elegiacally mouldering dons — embraces with love-hate...
- A Man of Numbers
- Ramanujan and Me
- Gifted with Numbers
- Mathematicians in The Movies
- The Man Who Knew Infinity
- The Other Romantic
Ramanujan had an extraordinary ability to see patterns. While he rarely proved his results he left a host of evaluations of sums and integrals. He was especially expert in a part of number theory called modular forms which is of even more interest today than when he died. The lost notebook initiated the study of mock theta functions which are only ...
Ramanujan has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My father David was a student of one of Hardy’s students. In our house “the bible” referred to Hardy’s masterpiece Divergent Series. In 1962 on the 75th anniversary of Ramanujan’s birth the envelope (below) arrived at my parents’ house. A kind stranger had put the franked stamps on t...
There is one famous anecdote about Ramanujan that even a non-mathematician can appreciate. In 1917 Ramanujan was hospitalised in London. He was said to have tuberculosis but it is more likely this was to cover a failed suicide attempt. Hardy took a cab to visit him. Not being good at small talk all Hardy could think to say was that the number of hi...
There has been a recent spate of books, plays and movies, and TV series about mathematicians and theoretical physicists: A Beautiful Mind (2001), Copenhagen (2002), Proof (2005) and last year’s Oscar winning movies The Imitation Game about Alan Turing and The Theory of Everythingon Stephen Hawking. When I have read the book on someone’s life, I fre...
But I do intend to see the movie of The Man Who Knew Infinity. Ramanujan’s presence has been too much a part of my life (intellectually and personally) for me to miss it. In the movie Hardy is played by Jeremy Irons while Stephen Fry plays Sir Francis Springwho was an early advocate of Ramanujan in India. Twenty-five year old Dev Patel, who acted i...
The other romantic mathematician I alluded to earlier was the even more short-lived French revolutionary Évariste Galois. Galois (1811–1832) died, aged 20, in a duel related to the famous female mathematician Sophie Germain. As the story goes, there is a note in the margin of the manuscript that Galois wrote the night before the duel. It read: It i...
Apr 29, 2016 · But even they can’t hide the fact that “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is missing some essential elements in its true-story equation. Sometimes, engaging the brain can be as equally essential as touching the heart.
Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. The Man Who Knew Infinity is moving, but not as compelling as the real life story of the genius it celebrates. The definitive film on Ramanujan remains to be...
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- Biography, History, Drama
- PG-13
Apr 8, 2016 · ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ is based on the true story of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. An autodidact, he earned admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he...
