Originally, the project went through the Film Independent ProducerвЂ™s Lab with Sloan support, and then we got a post-production grant through TFI last year. It is that classic KINGвЂ™S SPEECH kind of narrative structure. It is more about this guyвЂ™s very human story. There is a lot of math but hopefully we made it digestible enough. In the narrative we focused on telling the story. Then, heвЂ™s sick and dying and there is a ticking clock on him trying to get what he went there to do, done. He felt this sense of isolation wherever he went for one reason or another. The war starts and heвЂ™s having a hard time just getting enough food to eat because everything is rationed.

Kind of pudgy too, and a devout Brahman Hindu-he didnвЂ™t eat meat. Then he finally gets there and heвЂ™s finally able to relate to people but then heвЂ™s an outcast because heвЂ™s brown skinned in a very white environment. It was not until he got to Cambridge that anybody could ever talk with him on his level. They said, we need to send his work to the most preeminent minds in the world. Then, he got a job, and his employers started to understand it to a certain degree, but not nearly enough. In a way, he had a very lonely existence because nobody understood where he was coming from. Nobody anywhere around him understood anything he was talking about. In his mind there was a goddess who was divining these mathematical proofs into his brain while he was praying and then heвЂ™d write them down. JY: From a narrative perspective, and from an audience understanding perspective, it really is a human story. S&F: How important is it from your perspective that people walk away with some sort of understanding of the math? IвЂ™ve always been fascinated by people whose minds work in such a way. We try to break it down to make it more understandable to audiences. Meanwhile, IвЂ™ve been working on this thing for 12 years and I have no idea what heвЂ™s talking about or what any of this means in terms of the mathematics. It was all based on working from where Ramanujan and Hardy concluded and then taking it to the next level. Last year, his breakthrough was published in Discover magazine, and it was voted as the number one story of the year. He has studied everything Ramanujan and Hardy worked on during the years between 19. During the filming he had a breakthrough. JY: The mathematician Ken Ono was on the set in England teaching Dev and Matt Brown. S&F: IsnвЂ™t it true that in the end Ramanujan couldnвЂ™t articulate what he was doing? We didnвЂ™t delve into that: for us, he is more in love with his mind, and the fact that this guy is the next Sir Isaac Newton and he can change the world with what heвЂ™s doing. Jim Young: There is this assumption among some historians and screenwriters that Hardy had this obsession or crush on Ramanujan. Science & Film: How do you depict the relationship between G.H. Science & Film spoke with the filmвЂ™s producer, Jim Young, in New York at Soho House the afternoon before the filmвЂ™s screening at the Festival on April 15. The film was developed through multiple grants at Film Independent and the Tribeca Film Institute. The book, as well as the film, were supported by the Sloan Foundation. In the movie Dev Patel stars, and Jeremy Irons plays G.H.

Twelve years in the making, THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is based on Robert KanigelвЂ™s book of the same name. In 1976, the вЂњlost notebooksвЂќ of Ramanujan were discovered-pieces of papers that contained some of his final calculations which are being used today to understand black holes. After spending five years in residence in England, Ramanujan died at the age of 32. Hardy, the famed mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, who invited Ramanujan to study with him and promised to help him publish his work. In his 20s Ramanujan made contact with G.H. Before he was a teenager, he was writing calculations. Growing up in a poor village in Madras, India at the turn of the century, Ramanujan had no formal education.

You may know RamanujanвЂ™s name from GOOD WILL HUNTING Professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), compares Will Hunting (Matt Damon) to Ramanujan when trying to convince Sean (Robin Williams) to take him on as a patient. Ramanujan had a mind unlike any other, and almost all of his work has revolutionized the field of pure mathematics-there are Ramanujan equations, Ramanujan theorems, Ramanujan primes, Ramanujan series. Director Matthew BrownвЂ™s new film, THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, is a biopic about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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