The Man Who Knew Infinity (out Friday, April 29) is the latest in a series of largely English-based biopics in the “misunderstood genius” genre—following on the back-to-back 2014 releases of The Imitation Game (about Alan Turing) and The Theory of Everything (about Stephen Hawking).
While those films treated pioneers in computer science and physics, respectively, and were mostly set in the WWII and 1960s eras, the new offering is a kind of mathematical love story unlike any told before. Anchored by the University of Cambridge experience of the outbreak of WWI a century ago, it concerns the extraordinary and unlikely academic relationship between the poor and poorly educated Srinivasa Ramanujan from India, and G. H. Hardy, one of England’s most eminent mathematicians.
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