The Man Who Knew Infinity

2015
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Title: The Man Who Knew Infinity

Original Title: The Man Who Knew Infinity

Year: 2015

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: April 08 2016
  • United States: April 29 2016

Plot

Biographical film bassed on the book of the same name 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' written in 1991 by Robert Kanigel. The film tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who made important contributions to the mathematics' world like mathematical analysis, numbers, series and fraction's theory. With his hard work he got to enter at Cambridge University during World War II, where he continued working in his theories with the help of G. H. Hardy professor.

Dev Partel ('The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'New Exotic Marigold Hotel') will play Srinivasa Ramanujan mathematician and Jeremy Irons ('Die Hard: With a Vengeance', 'Margin Call') in G. H. Hardy professor role.

Cast

Director:

Matt Brown Matt Brown

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

G.H. Hardy

Toby Jones

Toby Jones

Littlewood

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Sir Francis Spring

Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Northam

Bertrand Russell

Kevin McNally

Kevin McNally

Major McMahon

Videos

'The Man Who Knew Infinity' trailer 3:18

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Trivia

David Leavitt ("The Lost Language of Cranes") wrote a semi-fictional version of this story in his novel "The Indian Clerk".

In the film Good Will Hunting when Stellan Skarsgård is trying to convince Robin Williams to take on Matt Damon he compares him to Srinivasa Ramanujan as an example of his extraordinary ability.

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