the man who knew infinity movie release date

In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s boundless mathematical and theoretical intelligence struggled to rise above the abject poverty of his home in Madras-India. Post mortem is when these often fragile people become vindicated and elevated and finally recognized for their achievements. Geniuses don’t usually produce money, are often treated as freaks and not really appreciated by society until way beyond their deaths, when their theories - always way ahead of their time, finally flow out like a sticky viscous molasses of proofs by lesser minds. He was an artist and numbers were his medium.īut for that infinitesimal percentage of humans that attain the prefix of genius, life is a very tumultuous road. Ramanujan was a man possessed by calculations practically from birth, his equations scribbled on temple floors before he ever opened a mathematics books. In the case of the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, based on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian Mathematician, who some say could decipher the very fabric of existence, you can ramp that up a notch to a mathematical genius coming from a lower than plebian class in Southern India. It’s been said, Great knowledge often comes from the humblest of origins.

The man who knew infinity movie release date