![]() ![]() The Man Who Knew Infinity does an excellent job at portraying mathematicians as human beings with all their virtues and faults. While less well known by the average moviegoer than Alan Turing or Stephen Hawking, among mathematicians Ramanujan’s is a famously romantic story about a man in love with numbers who finds early companions in Hardy and Littlewood and later earns the respect of all. ![]() Littlewood (Toby Jones), and died soon after from the effects of tuberculosis. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and, to a lesser extent, J. Ramanujan visited Trinity College in Cambridge during 1914-1919 to collaborate with G. 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.
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