His five-year stint with Srinivasa Ramanujan starts in 1914 when the young man disenchanted with not being able to gain recognition at home, leaves his arranged for wife whom he has grown to love, and his overbearing mother, arriving weeks later in Cambridge, sponsored by the college on Hardy’s recommendation. Toby Jones as Professor Littlewood welcomes SRinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) to Cambridge Hardy during his career became a renowned collaborator – highlights included completing theoretical works over a thirty-five year period with Professor Littlewood. However when Hardy confronts his friend he discovers it is not from him and realises it is genuine.
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Littlewood (1885-1977) played with wonderful pathos by the truly delightful Toby Jones. He surmises its origins lay with his brilliant colleague Professor J.E. Intriguingly, even though the envelope is covered in Indian stamps and has been sent from Madras in India, he honestly believes at first it is a joke. The pages contain highly original mathematical calculations like he has never seen before. He was however bound by his formal training and as such made sure all his own, mathematical calculations, and any put forward in his name were ‘provable’.ĭuring the months leading up to the beginning of World War I, Hardy receives a letter.ĭespite knowing ‘knowledge comes from the humblest origins’ he is thrown into disarray for a time, as pages of startling mathematical notes accompany the letter from a young Indian man living in Madras, India. Hardy also noted the mathematics he learned during his lifetime was an art form that reflected truth. He noted a ‘mathematician’s pattern’s, like those of the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful, the ideas like the colours or the words, all fitting together in a harmonious way.’ĭev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan and Devika Bhise as his wife Janaki in The Man Who Knew Infinity Hardy was a scholar and a pure mathematician, one who hoped his theories could never be applied.
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Wonderfully realised by Jeremy Irons, with acquaintance he not only ages like a wonderful red wine but also turns out to be like one, full of complexity. Hardy appears at first glance to be a curmudgeon of a character. When he finds himself staring at the feet of the great Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Mathematician and physicist, you can share his overwhelming feelings. He’s surrounded by men of history who raised standards so high in their day, they became roles models for great men of the future including – John Dee (1527-1608) Alchemist, Geographer and Mathematician and Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Lawyer, Philosopher, Poet and Lord Chancellor of England, to name a few. The day Ramanujan finds himself in a hallway surrounded by sculptures of notable alumni from Trinity College you can understand his awe. Trinity College Cambridge, steeped in scholarly traditionĬambridge is one of those very special places of learning many people aspire to attend as so many great men and women in history have gone before them. Its fine set of ageing buildings cannot help but provide an appealing backdrop to the story. Now we have The Man Who Knew Infinity, with award winning actor Dev Patel as acclaimed Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920).ĭirected and written by Matthew Brown from a biography by Robert Kanigel, this is a story I did not know, about people I had never heard of, evolving in a place that I had Trinity College at Cambridge University in England.Īccomplished British actor Jeremy Irons plays British mathematician and Cambridge Fellow Godfrey Harold (G.H.) Hardy (1877-1947) who won a scholarship to study at Cambridge, because his highly intelligent parents came from poor families. The Imitation Game with the brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, pioneering computer scientist and Eddie Redmayne, pure genius as everyone’s favourite physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, were both stories powerfully told.
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It would be fair to say that in the past few years’ stories about Mathematics have become very sexy for filmmakers. Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as Godfrey Harold (G.H.) Hardy, in The Man Who Knew Infinity