The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) Based in the 1910s Srinivasan Ramanujan taught himself not only math, but math on a level only a handful of people are even close to being able to understand. Because of his endless confidence and talent, he gained notice by eminent mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to work on his calculations at Trinity College in Cambridge. He has to leave his wife behind and in the UK he encounters resistance against both his cultural background and his mathematical theories of a very intuitive nature. There is further turbulence from the strict academic regiment practiced by the college, and depressional nature of British culture heading into World War I. His health begins to fail and his family wanting to isolate him from his wife, he joins Hardy in a great struggle that would come to define him as one of the greatest Minds and Scholars to come out of India. Along the way he overcomes barriers to become a great success in the eyes of history. ...
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