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The man who knew infinity.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: IFS892MW | Icon Film DistributionPublication details: Australia : Distributed by Icon Film Distribution, 2016.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 108 minutes) : (DVD video) sound, color ; 12 cmUniform titles:
  • The man who knew infinity (Motion picture : 2015)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
Production credits:
  • Produced by Joe Thomas, Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan, Jon Katz, Edward R. Pressman, Jim Young ; written and directed by Matthew Brown.
Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin R. McNally, Enzo Cilenti.Summary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. The pair would go on to become unlikely friends and make up one of history?s most bewildering and productive collaborations. As mathematicians they worked on the most complex problems known to man and much of Ramanujan?s work is still relevant in maths and science today.
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DVD Melbourne Athenaeum Library DVD MAN Available 065130
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.

"Based on a true story"--Container.

Based on the novel by the same name by Robert Kanigel, originally published in 1991.

Produced by Joe Thomas, Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan, Jon Katz, Edward R. Pressman, Jim Young ; written and directed by Matthew Brown.

Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin R. McNally, Enzo Cilenti.

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. The pair would go on to become unlikely friends and make up one of history?s most bewildering and productive collaborations. As mathematicians they worked on the most complex problems known to man and much of Ramanujan?s work is still relevant in maths and science today.

Classification : PG.

DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1, PAL, Region 4, anamorphic widescreen 2.40:1.

English dialogue. [CC] English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired).

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