The Man Who Knew Infinity

– Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge Universi..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 48 Minutes
Release Year:
2015
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

Growing 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.

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Producing Country:
USA, UK
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Genre:

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) - Trailer

Release Date:

29 Apr 2016

Language:

English, Tamil, Sanskrit

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Matt Brown

Writer:

Matt Brown (screenplay), Matt Brown, Robert Kanigel (biography)

Main Actors:

Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi

Plot:

In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India's greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds.

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination.

Production:

Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
Metacritic:
56%