The Man Who Knew Infinity

— A well done and an interesting look at science, education, culture, and religion, thanks to the story of an unschooled Indian mathematical genius who is invited to Cambridge to work with a noted professor. With World War II as a backdrop, he’s forced to deal with a multitude of cultural issues, as well as with leaving his mother and wife behind in India. Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons are both engaging but, although we get a sense that Srinivasa Ramanujan really made some significant contribution to the field of mathematics, we never have much of an idea what kind of difference he made. This is more about collaboration than the product and that’s interesting enough in Patel and Irons’ hands. [DVD]

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[2015. 108 min. Directed by Matt Brown. Starring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, and Malcolm Sinclair.]
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/movies/applying-a-different-calculus-for-a-biopic-about-math.html