the man who knew infinity movie portland

While at Cambridge Ramanujan was under the guidance of fellow mathematician G.H. “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is based on a biography (with the same title) written by Robert Kanigel about the life and academic career of Srinivasa Ramanujan an Indian mathematician with almost no formal education who earns admittance to Cambridge University where he makes extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. I wanted to watch the movie because I wanted to know his life story, how and why did he do mathematics? What struggles did he endure? What was he like as a person? I remember seeing a picture of Srinivasa Ramanujan in my math text book when I was a high school student and reading a small caption about him telling me that he was a brilliant mathematician who developed theorems despite having grown up in poverty without formal education. So when I saw the movie “The Man Who Knew Infinity” on Netflix I eagerly watched it. There are not many movies about mathematics or mathematicians and there are even less popular movies about the subject (Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind are a couple of examples).

The man who knew infinity movie portland