The scenes at the end, where Hardy presumably delivers the obituary of Ramanujan at a Royal Society meeting is one which I will remember for the rest of my life. The movie shows all these things in poignant detail and it would be very hard not to let a tear slide down your cheek when you realize how hard it must have been for this great man to have survived such hardships. But the cruel blow of death was stuck very early and Ramanujan like many fine mathematicians before him, left for his heavenly abode at the age of 32.

His legend was in place and he had created some wonderful new mathematics. Ramanujan returned to India, a mathematical hero. But, this in no way hindered his pursuit of mathematics and he continued to work even on his death bed. This took a toll on Ramanujan’s health and he fell ill while in Cambridge. It was a tough time for a vegetarian orthodox Tamil Brahmin at that time of World War I to live in a war rationed England. There were accolades which followed his achievements, first a fellowship to the Royal Society (the elite group whose members at one point boasted the likes of Sir Issac Newton) and then a fellowship to Trinity College (being the first Indian so honored) and it seemed for some time that everything would be fine for Ramanujan now. This seemingly intractable problem’s solution sealed Ramanujan’s immortality in no less terms. The most prominently displayed formula in the movie is the truly marvelous asymptotic estimate for the number of partitions of a natural number, which Ramanujan and Hardy proved.

The movie for the most part shows Ramanujan’s time in Cambridge where he worked alongside G. Hardy, the foremost British pure mathematician at that time. The movie begins with Ramanujan working in the floor of a temple in his hometown and then shifts to his struggles in finding a job, until he is rescued by a few good Samaritans. But this is to be expected in any movie of such a genre. There was the perfect balance of mathematics and romance in the book, which I found somehow lacking in the movie. Robert Kanigal’s book The Man Who Knew Infinity, on which the movie is based was in my opinion an excellent mathematical biography. This is a good movie it is not the best movie based on a mathematician’s life nor is it an average movie. Nonetheless, I shall try to give an overview of what the movie has to offer. It is very difficult to write an objective review when the subject is a movie based on the biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Institutes Offering Mathematics Courses in India.Mathematical Societies in Asia Pacific Region.

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