The Man Who Knew Infinity | |
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Directed by | Matthew Brown |
Produced by | Edward R. Pressman Jim Young Joe Thomas |
Screenplay by | Matthew Brown |
Based on | The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel |
Starring | Dev Patel Jeremy Irons Devika Bhise Toby Jones Stephen Fry Jeremy Northam Kevin McNally Enzo Cilenti |
Music by | Coby Brown |
Cinematography | Larry Smith |
Edited by | JC Bond |
Production company | Pressman Film Xeitgeist Entertainment Group Cayenne Pepper Productions |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures (United Kingdom) Mister Smith Entertainment (International) |
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108 minutes | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $10 million[1] |
Box office | $12.3 million[2] |
The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographicaldrama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.
A Man Of Numbers. Ramanujan had an extraordinary ability to see patterns. While he rarely proved. Ramanujan’s knowledge of mathematics (most of which he had worked out for himself) was startling. Although he was almost completely unaware of modern developments in mathematics, his mastery of continued fractions was unequaled by any living mathematician. He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his.
The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons.
Filming began in August 2014 at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] The film had its world premiere as a gala presentation at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,[4][5] and was selected as the opening gala of the 2015 Zurich Film Festival.[6] It also played other film festivals including Singapore International Film Festival[7] and Dubai International Film Festival.[8] Psp games pbp file free download.
Plot[edit]
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. While performing his menial labor, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tasks. 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 and to start to contact professors of mathematics at universities by writing to them. One such letter is sent to G.H. Hardy, a famous mathematician at University of Cambridge, who begins to take a special interest in Ramanujan.[9]
Ramanujan at this time also marries while performing his menial labor and sending out his first publications. Hardy soon invites Ramanujan to Cambridge to test his mettle as a potential theoretical mathematician. Ramanujan is overwhelmed by the opportunity and decides to pursue Hardy's offer, even though this means he must leave his wife for an extended period. He parts lovingly with his wife and promises to keep up his correspondence with her.
Upon arrival at Cambridge, Ramanujan encounters various forms of racial prejudice and finds his adjustment to life in England more difficult than expected, though Hardy is much impressed by Ramanujan's abilities. Hardy remains concerned about Ramanujan's ability to communicate effectively due to his lack of experience in writing proofs, but with perseverance, he manages to get Ramanujan published in a major journal.[10] In the meantime, Ramanujan finds out that he is suffering from tuberculosis and his frequent letters home to his wife remain unanswered after many months. Hardy continues to see much more promise in Ramanujan. However, he remains unaware of the personal difficulties his student is having with his housing and with his lack of contact with his family back home in India. Ramanujan's health worsens while he continues delving into deeper and more profound research interests in mathematics under the guidance of Hardy and others at Cambridge.
His wife, after much elapsed time, wonders why she has not heard from Ramanujan and eventually discovers that his mother has been intercepting his letters. While still in England, Hardy takes special efforts to get Ramanujan's now recognizably exceptional mathematical skills to be fully accepted by his university by nominating Ramanujan for a fellowship at Trinity College. At first, Hardy fails for reasons related to college politics and recurrent racial prejudice at the time. By gaining the support of key members of the college, Hardy again nominates Ramanujan for a fellowship; he is accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society and then as a Fellow of Trinity College. Ramanujan is eventually reunited with his family in India, though his declining health, which suffered from poor housing and harsh winter weather in England, ultimately takes its toll and leads to his premature demise all too soon after his recognition as a mathematician of international merit and importance.
Cast[edit]
- Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Jeremy Irons as G. H. Hardy
- Devika Bhise as Janaki
- Toby Jones as John Edensor Littlewood
- Stephen Fry as Sir Francis Spring
- Jeremy Northam as Bertrand Russell
- Kevin McNally as Major MacMahon
- Enzo Cilenti as Doctor
- Arundhati Nag as Ramanujan's mother
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Narayana Iyer
- Shazad Latif as Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Roger Narayan as an iyengar[11]
While Irons is more than 40 years Patel's senior, the real Hardy was only 10 years older than Ramanujan.
Production[edit]
Tamil actor R. Madhavan was initially selected to portray the lead role in the film after agreeing terms during January 2012, but the makers eventually decided they wanted an international actor to play Ramanujan.[12]
Reception[edit]
Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 62% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 123 reviews with an average score of 6.1/10. The critics' consensus reads: 'The Man Who Knew Infinity might be a tad too conventional to truly do its subject justice, but Dev Patel (Srinivasa Ramanujan) and Jeremy Irons (G.H. Hardy) elevate the end result beyond mere biopic formula.'[13]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.[14]
After the film's world premiere, Allan Hunter in Screen Daily found the film to be 'a well-heeled, sincere production following the memories of Ramanujan's English mentor and friend.. The film tells such a good story that it is hard to resist. The old-fashioned virtues of a well-told tale and a particularly fine performance from Jeremy Irons should endear the film to that supposedly under-served older demographic who like to turn out for a weekday matinee.. Mathematics plays a key role in the story, but in a way that is entirely accessible, allowing the viewer to comprehend the advances that Ramanujan made and why his legacy remains so important almost a century after his death.' [15]Deborah Young in The Hollywood Reporter found the film to be a 'respectable but all too conventional biopic'.[16]
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Mathematicians Ken Ono and Manjul Bhargava collaborated on the film, which has been praised by mathematicians and scientists for its accurate mathematics and authentic portrayal of mathematicians.George E. Andrews, former President of the American Mathematical Society, praised the film for its moving portrayal of the deep relationship between Ramanujan and Hardy.[17]The London Mathematical Society proclaimed that the film 'outshines Good Will Hunting in almost every way'.[18]Reviewing the film for Nature, Andrew Robinson wrote that 'the film took more than ten years to create. It is worth the wait.'[19]
Release[edit]
Mister Smith Entertainment handled international sales of the film.[20]Warner Bros. released the film in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2016. IFC Films released it in the U.S. on 29 April 2016.[21]
See also[edit]
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- Partition (number theory) & Ramanujan's congruences
References[edit]
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity – PowerGrind'. The Wrap. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^'Dev Patel's 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' Moves to Production After 8 Years in Development'. Variety. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^Matt Brennan (14 October 2015). 'IFC Films Acquires Math Genius Biopic 'The Man Who Knew Infinity,' with Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel'. Indiewire / Thompson on Hollywood!. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity [programme note]'. TIFF.net. Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- ^Zack Sharf (25 August 2015). ''The Man Who Knew Infinity' Selected as Zurich Film Festival Opening Night Film'. Indiewire. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity'. SGIFF. 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity'. DIFF. 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^Webster, Andy (28 April 2016). 'Review: 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' Gives a Mathematical Genius His Due'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity is a by the numbers biopic - review'. The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^Joseph, Raveena (28 July 2016). 'Tales from a journeyman'. The Hindu.
- ^Warrier, Shobha (24 January 2012). 'Madhavan as Ramanujan, the Mathematical genius'. Rediff. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^'The Man Who Knew Infinity'. Metacritic. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^Allan Hunter (15 September 2015). ''The Man Who Knew Infinity': Review'. Screen Daily. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^Deborah Young (14 September 2015). ''The Man Who Knew Infinity': TIFF Review'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
Brown’s screenplay brings math into the dialogue often and without embarrassment.
- ^George Andrews (February 2016). 'Film Review: 'The Man Who Knew Infinity''(PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
- ^Armando Martino and David Singerman (March 2016). 'The Man Who Knew Infinity: film review'(PDF). London Mathematical Society Newsletter.
- ^Andrew Robinson (31 March 2016). 'Film: In search of Ramanujan'. Nature. 531 (7596): 576–577. doi:10.1038/531576a.
- ^N'Duka, Amanda (10 September 2015). ''The Man Who Knew Infinity' Clip: Toronto Film About Math Genius Ramanujan'.
- ^Matt Brennan (14 October 2015). 'IFC Films Acquires Math Genius Biopic 'The Man Who Knew Infinity,' with Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel'. Indiewire / Thompson on Hollywood!. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
External links[edit]
- The Man Who Knew Infinity on IMDb
- The Man Who Knew Infinity at Rotten Tomatoes
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Dev Patel plays Ramanujan (right) with Jeremy Iron’s as his Cambridge mentor G H Hardy (left) in The Man Who Knew Infinity. Icon Films
The movie The Man Who Knew Infinity is about Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is generally viewed by mathematicians as one of the two most romantic figures in our discipline. (I shall say more about the other romantic later.)
Ramanujan (1887–1920) was born and died, aged just 32, in Southern India. But in one of the most extraordinary events in mathematical history, he spent the period of World War I in Trinity College Cambridge at the invitation of the leading British mathematician Godfrey Harold (G. H.) Hardy (1877–1947) and his great collaborator John E. Littlewood.
To avoid having to issue spoiler alerts, I will not tell much of Ramanujan’s story here.
Srinivasa Ramanujan. Wikimedia
Suffice to say that as a boy he refused to learn anything but mathematics, he was almost entirely self taught and his pre-Cambridge work is contained in a series of Notebooks.
The work he did after returning to India in 1919 is contained in the misleadingly named Lost Notebook. It was lost and later found in the Wren library of the leading college for mathematics of the leading University in England. While in England Ramanujan became the first Indian Fellow both of Trinity and of the Royal Society.
A Man Of Numbers
Ramanujan had an extraordinary ability to see patterns. While he rarely proved his results he left a host of evaluations of sums and integrals. He was especially expert in a part of number theory called modular forms which is of even more interest today than when he died. Emv chip card reader writer software, free download.
The lost notebook initiated the study of mock theta functions which are only now being fully understood. Fleshing out his Notebooks has only recently been completed principally by American mathematicians Prof Bruce Berndt and Prof George Andrews. It comprises thousands of printed pages.
An old Indian friend, Swami Swaminathan, oversaw the Ramanujan Library in Madras over half a century ago. He commented that had Ramanujan been born ten years early he would have been unable to receive the education and financial assistance that made his pre-Cambridge work possible.
Swaminathan went on to say that had Ramanujan been born ten years later, he would have probably received a more robust and more ordinary education. In either case our version of Ramanujan would not exist.
Ramanujan And Me
Ramanujan has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My father David was a student of one of Hardy’s students. In our house “the bible” referred to Hardy’s masterpiece Divergent Series.
In 1962 on the 75th anniversary of Ramanujan’s birth the envelope (below) arrived at my parents' house. A kind stranger had put the franked stamps on the back.
The anonymous letter. Author provided
In 1987 I was fortunate enough to speak with my brother at the major centennial conference on Ramanujan, held at the University of Illinois. We had become experts on and had extended Ramanujan’s work on Pi.
Highlights at the conference included the Nobel prize winning astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who described how important Ramanujan’s success in England had been to the self-confidence of himself and the founders of modern India including Jawaharlal Nehru, who became the first prime minister of independent India in 1947.
In 2008 David Leavitt published a novelised version of Ramanujan’s life entitled the Indian Clerk. While Leavitt captures much beautifully, as a novelist, he takes some sizeable liberties. In particular, he dramatically embellishes Hardy’s (closeted?) homosexuality. I prefer my novels as fables and my biographies straight.
In 2012 on the 125th anniversary of Ramanujan’s birth the Notices of the American Mathematical Society published eight articles on his work. This suite forcibly showed how Ramanujan’s reputation and impact continue to grow.
Gifted With Numbers
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There is one famous anecdote about Ramanujan that even a non-mathematician can appreciate. In 1917 Ramanujan was hospitalised in London. He was said to have tuberculosis but it is more likely this was to cover a failed suicide attempt.
Hardy took a cab to visit him. Not being good at small talk all Hardy could think to say was that the number of his cab, 1,729, was uninteresting.
Ramanujan replied that quite to the contrary it was the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two distinct ways:
1,729 = 123 + 13 = 103 + 93
This is know known as Ramanujan’s taxi-cab number.
Mathematicians In The Movies
There has been a recent spate of books, plays and movies, and TV series about mathematicians and theoretical physicists: A Beautiful Mind (2001), Copenhagen (2002), Proof (2005) and last year’s Oscar winning movies The Imitation Game about Alan Turing and The Theory of Everything on Stephen Hawking.
When I have read the book on someone’s life, I frequently avoid the movie. As writer Michael Crichton put it:
All professions look bad in the movies […] why should scientists expect to be treated differently? Teamviewer 2017 crack torrent.
Such movies – even biopics – have to compress a life of the mind into 90 to 120 minutes and give a flavour of genius to the rest of us. Even more than the books on which they are based, they have to make the character more exotic (Turing) or better redeemed (John Nash in A Beautiful Mind) than in the book let alone real life.
So I tend to avoid the movies and to be satisfied with my own knowledge and the corresponding book which can take 500 pages and more if it needs to.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
But I do intend to see the movie of The Man Who Knew Infinity. Ramanujan’s presence has been too much a part of my life (intellectually and personally) for me to miss it.
In the movie Hardy is played by Jeremy Irons while Stephen Fry plays Sir Francis Spring who was an early advocate of Ramanujan in India.
Twenty-five year old Dev Patel, who acted in Slumdog Millionaire (2008), is Ramanujan.
I reviewed very favourably Robert Kanigel’s book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius, on which the movie is based.
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The current movie has had the brilliant Canadian-born Fields Medalist and Princeon professor of mathematics Manjul Bhargava as technical advisor. Bhargava is also an expert tabla player who works in fields well aligned with Ramanujan’s opus. This augurs well for the movie’s accuracy.
The Other Romantic
The other romantic mathematician I alluded to earlier was the even more short-lived French revolutionary Évariste Galois.
Galois (1811–1832) died, aged 20, in a duel related to the famous female mathematician Sophie Germain. As the story goes, there is a note in the margin of the manuscript that Galois wrote the night before the duel. It read:
There is something to complete in this demonstration. I do not have the time.
It is this note which has led to the legend that Galois spent his last night writing out all he knew about group (Galois) theory. This story appears to have grown with the telling but his life would also make for a very interesting movie.
Jonathan Borwein (Jon), Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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