
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Matt Brown, 2015
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Robert Kanigel, 1991
The Man Who Knew Infinity is a movie directed by Matt Brown in 2015 and based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, first published in 1991. The movie features Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, and others.
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Storyline
At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. It becomes equally clear to his employers, who are college-educated, that Ramanujan’s mathematical insights exceed the simple accounting tasks they are assigning to him and soon they encourage him to make his personal writings in mathematics available to the general public.
Movie vs Book

Year
2015
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
7.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Director: Matt Brown
Country: UK
Year: 2015
Length: 1h48m
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Year
1991
Pages
438
Book Rate
8.02
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Book
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Subtitle: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Author: Robert Kanigel
Country: USA
First published in: 1991
Length: 438 pages
Genre: Biography
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