The Man Who Knew Infinity
Sloan Foundation Film
Release Date
2016
Film Synopsis
A true story based on the life of math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and Professor G.H. Hardy, who recognized Ramanujan’s brilliance despite the latter’s lack of formal training and education.
During World War I, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius travels to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forms a bond with the eccentric professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and must fight against prejudice to reveal his genius to the world.
Possible Topics
- Who was Srinivasa Ramanujan?
- Mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions
Past Programs
2016
Who was Srinivasa Ramanujan?
Pickford Film Center, Bellingham, WA
Intuition, Paradoxes, and Proof
Pittsburgh Filmmakers / Regent Square Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
Where do math insights come from?
Cameo Cinema, St Helena, CA
2017
Math at the Movies
Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN
2018
The importance of patterns
The Tull Family Theater, Sewickley, PA
The Man Who Knew Infinity at Tull Family Theater
The Tull Family Theater, Sewickley, PA