the man who knew infinity movie portland

The most prominently displayed formula in the movie is the truly marvelous asymptotic estimate for the number of partitions of a natural number, which Ramanujan and Hardy proved. The movie for the most part shows Ramanujan’s time in Cambridge where he worked alongside G. Hardy, the foremost British pure mathematician at that time. The movie begins with Ramanujan working in the floor of a temple in his hometown and then shifts to his struggles in finding a job, until he is rescued by a few good Samaritans. But this is to be expected in any movie of such a genre. There was the perfect balance of mathematics and romance in the book, which I found somehow lacking in the movie.

Robert Kanigal’s book The Man Who Knew Infinity, on which the movie is based was in my opinion an excellent mathematical biography. This is a good movie it is not the best movie based on a mathematician’s life nor is it an average movie. Nonetheless, I shall try to give an overview of what the movie has to offer. It is very difficult to write an objective review when the subject is a movie based on the biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Institutes Offering Mathematics Courses in India.Mathematical Societies in Asia Pacific Region.

The man who knew infinity movie portland