Recommended DVD of the Week: The Man Who Knew Infinity (12)
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11:44 AM September 2, 2016
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4:29 PM November 1, 2020
The Man Who Knew Infinity - Credit: Archant
Matt Brown directs, writes and co-produces this biographical drama based on the story of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel.
Dev Patel stars as Ramanujan, an aspiring academic mathematician from a poor family in Madras, India. He applies to study at Cambridge University during World War One and is accepted. Srinivasa is soon shown to be a prodigal genius and is taken under the wing of Professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), but he still faces challenges at Cambridge in the form of racism and prejudice.