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PhiloGrowing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Now arrives “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” which on the surface looks like a potentially rich variation on this smarty-pants fact-based genre. The innovator this time is Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician whose…
A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Review: ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ Gives a Mathematical Genius His Due. ... This film centers on Srinivasa Ramanujan, a brilliant…
Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel in The Man Who Knew Infinity.Ramunujan battled the reactionary conservatism and racism of the British establishment to become accepted: he is played by Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons portrays Hardy; Toby Jones plays…
