For simplicity’s sake, the film focuses on only one aspect of Ramanujan’s work: his pioneering exploration of number theory, particularly as related to partitions. How do you show, in ways that are at least vaguely cinematic, the stroke of genius?ĭev Patel plays Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematical prodigy from India who died tragically at age 32 after doing groundbreaking work at Cambridge University in the early years of the 20th century. For that reason, movies about such original thinkers as famous writers and artists - or, as in “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” the pioneering mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan - suffer from an inherent difficulty. The life of the imagination is difficult to capture, let alone to contain, onscreen. Jeremy Irons (left) and Dev Patel (right) star in “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” a film about pioneering mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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