A recent movie titled The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on the biogra

A recent movie titled The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on the biography of

S. Ramanujan

S. Chandrasekhar

S. N. Bose

C. V. Raman

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The recent movie titled ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ is based on the biography of the eminent Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

The film, released in 2015 (premiered in 2015, released in 2016), depicts the life and work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and his extraordinary partnership with his professor G.H. Hardy at Trinity College, Cambridge, during World War I.

S. Ramanujan (1887-1920) made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. The movie is based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The other scientists listed are also famous Indian physicists: S. Chandrasekhar (astrophysicist, Nobel laureate), S. N. Bose (physicist, known for Bose-Einstein statistics), and C. V. Raman (physicist, Nobel laureate for the Raman effect).

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