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The Man Who Knew Infinity

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

1914. The mathematical claims of a Hindu clerk in Madras bring him to Trinity College, Cambridge. However, his intuitive insights do not fit with academia’s demands for meticulously calculated proofs, and race proves a further bar to acceptance. Show less

Contributors

Srinivasa Ramanujan:
Dev Patel
G.H. Hardy:
Jeremy Irons
Littlewood:
Toby Jones
Sir Francis Spring:
Stephen Fry
Bertrand Russell:
Jeremy Northam
Major MacMahon:
Kevin McNally
Komalatammal:
Arundathi Nag
Director:
Matthew Brown

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