Once in Cambridge, he forges a strong bond with Hardy, who encourages him to rigorously prove the formulas he has developed empirically using intuition and, in his own view, divine guidance. Ramanujan travels to England, leaving behind his supportive wife and possessive mother. The professor recognises Ramanujan’s genius and invites him to pursue his studies at the college and get published. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) at Trinity College, Cambridge. Ramanujan writes a letter, with excerpts of his work, to G.H. His kind boss, Sir Francis Spring (Stephen Fry), gives him the encouragement he needs to pursue his work and to travel to England to get his work published.

The job allows him to bring his wife and mother, Komalatammal (Arundathi Nag), to Madras and continue with his first love: mathematics. After considerable struggle, he finds a humble job as a clerk in a shipping company. The film introduces Ramanujan as an intensely poor 25-year-old living away from his wife, Janaki (Devika Bhise), in Madras, India, in 1913. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a very conventional and far too predictable biopic of one of the most inspiring men in the world of mathematics. Showing a few neatly written equations and two notebooks as proof of the mathematician’s greatness, is not enough.

The film seems reluctant, if not loathe, to describing the significance of the work that continues to be studied and applied almost a century after it was developed. Matthew Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity cannot expect viewers to be fascinated by the work of Indian autodidact and mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who left behind a monumental body of work on the theory of numbers.

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