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THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY (UK 2015) ***
Directed by Matthew Brown
Starring: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Stephen Fry
Review by Gilbert Seah
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is the bio pic of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. Growing up poor in Madras, Nujan (as he is fondly called in the film) earns admittance to Cambridge University under the mentorship of professor G.J. Hardy (Jeremy Irons). Initially upset at Nujan for his pride and refusal to work out proofs for his mathematical theories, Hardy eventually relents and lets the horse run loose. Together, they achieve milestones in mathematics, cracking the almost impossible task of formulating formulae for partitions.
The first 30 minutes of the film is boring while the the film…
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