Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk through the Quad at Trinity College, Cambridge, England in Matthew Brown’s THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY. Photo by Richard Blanshard. Photo courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release. ©
– By Cate Marquis –
“The Man Who Knew Infinity” is a handsome, well-acted historical drama based on the unexpected true story of an India-born, self-taught mathematical genius. In 1913, the young genius was brought to England, by a mathematics professor at Trinity College in Cambridge, who recognized the young man’s gift despite the prejudices of the time.
Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire”) plays Srinavasa Ramanujan, a poor and poorly-educated Hindu man who is obsessed with mathematics, working out ground-breaking original theorems in the dust of his local temple floor. Jeremy Irons plays mathematics professor G.H. Hardy, a flinty fellow who counts among his friends and colleagues Bertrand Russell (Jeremy Northam). The story is set against the historical backdrop of World War I, and the colonialism and cultural prejudices of the era.
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