Where to watch: Netflix, Disney Plus on J. Hardy helps Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice. Racist dons abhor his presence radical ones like Bertrand Russell (Jeremy Northam) entreat Hardy to let him run and hang the need for proofs. You can always watch the end-credits scene from this film, which takes place during the end of Infinity War, after Infinity War. Where are the proofs, they ask? Ramanujan shrugs: he sees the theories whole, in his mind, not the proofs. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same. Neither the cold and aloof Hardy nor his warm and witty fellow mathematician JE Littlewood (Toby Jones) can quite understand the work, nor how a self-taught Brahmin from Tamil Nadu could come up with it. Most of the film takes place in Cambridge, after Ramanujan has been invited to England to explain the theories he put forward in a letter to the eminent Cambridge mathematician, GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), in 1913.
Assuming you don't care about accuracy in his life story.
full of work as if off to the library when going to watch his beloved cricket. Let's start again: if you don't mind a broad melodrama about a fascinating and mysteriously gifted man who revolutionised mathematical thinking, then this is your film. Review of film The Man Who Knew Infinity by Dr Katherine Seaton. The casting of Dev Patel as Ramanujan was all but inevitable in that sense: get the guy from Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel!