The poetry of the infinite
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| German title | The poetry of the infinite |
| Original title | The Man Who Knew Infinity |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Matthew Brown |
| script | Matthew Brown |
| production | Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan , Edward R. Pressman , Joe Thomas , Jim Young |
| music | Coby Brown |
| camera | Larry Smith |
| cut | JC Bond |
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The Poetry of Infinity (Original title: The Man Who Knew Infinity ) is a British biopic from 2015 . It was directed by Matthew Brown , who also wrote the script. The film drama is a film adaptation of the biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan . The template was the biography of Robert Kanigel (with the same title as the English original title). The film was released in April 2016 in the USA and England and had its premiere in Germany in May 2016.
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The gifted Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan grew up in poverty in India. Since he had no education, he had difficulties finding a job, but then met sponsors who put him in contact with the leading British mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy . He initially takes Ramanujan's letter to be a joke by his friend Littlewood, but then invites him to Cambridge . He recognizes his genius and supports him, even if there are soon conflicts between Ramanujan and his academic environment, as he does not want to recognize the necessity of strict mathematical proofs for his sentences and formulas and regards their truth as God given. This conflict between intuitive genius and the insistence on rigorous evidence in Western tradition and the developing friendship between Hardy and Ramanujan is one of the main themes of the film.
Hardy needs some time to get closer to Ramanujan even after work, and only late notices the deteriorating health of Ramanujan (tuberculosis), who also suffers from the separation from his young wife and longs to return to India. As a Brahmin , Ramanujan is also dependent on a strict vegetarian diet and has problems adhering to it in England.
The film is set against the backdrop of the effects of the First World War in Cambridge, whose gloomy atmosphere is portrayed in the form of racist riots by soldiers against Ramanujan and his influence on Hardy and his friend Bertrand Russell , who are against the war and therefore get into trouble . Finally, despite great resistance, Hardy succeeds in getting Ramanujan admitted to the Royal Society and making him a Fellow of Trinity College. The film ends with Ramanujan's return to India and Hardy's shock when he hears of Ramanujan's death in Cambridge.
background
The shooting took place in 2014, among other places, at Trinity College in Cambridge and thus at one of the original locations. Mathematical advisors were Ken Ono and Manjul Bhargava (who was also one of the associate producers). The film was first screened in September 2015 at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Zurich Film Festival in 2015.
The mathematician George E. Andrews , himself a specialist in Ramanujan's mathematics, emphasizes the coherent representation of the figures and the mathematical content (even if Jeremy Irons is clearly too old for the role of Hardy).
literature
- George E. Andrews : The man who knew infinity: A report on the movie. Notices AMS, 2016, No. 2, pdf
Web links
- The poetry of the infinite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The poetry of the infinite. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 29, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for The Poetry of Infinite . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).