While the film contains few moments of Hollywood-style action, it offers a strong cast and plenty to engage viewers who are looking for a dramatic story about discrimination. The focus is on Ramanujan’s perseverance and his ability to envision complicated calculations that he credits to his god, another taboo in the world of academia. Like the time-consuming efforts to prove math theories, this film unfolds in at an unhurried pace. He also succumbs to an illness that leaves him fighting for his life. On the Cambridge grounds, Ramanujan is subjected to loneliness, cultural and religious intolerance and bouts of bullying from teachers and fellow students. And the rumblings of an imminent world war don’t help either. Even Hardy seems more intent on reining in Ramanujan than promoting his ideas. Prejudice against his ethnic origin and his innate intelligence runs rampant on a campus where tradition trumps innovation.

But seeing his work recognized by others in the mathematics world isn’t as easy as the confident young man supposes it will be. When Ramanujan sets sail for England, he leaves behind a new wife (Devika Bhise) and a way of life in exchange for the chance to be published. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) at Trinity College in Cambridge.

But his skills are underappreciated in his homeland where he lives in abject poverty while trying to find work.įinally, he is taken in by an employer who begins to see the young man’s abilities and eventually helps him connect with Professor G. Although he has little formal schooling, Ramanujan understands numbers and complex computations in a way most highly-trained scholars will never comprehend. In the 2015 film, The Man Who Knew Infiinity, he plays the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Dev Patel ( Slumdog Millionaire) continues to build a strong acting resume.

The man who knew infinity movie 2015