Question

A recent movie titled ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ is based on the biography of
(a) S. Ramanujan

(b) S. Chandrasekhar

(c) S. N. Bose

(d) C. V. Raman

Answer 1

(a) (i) ‘The Man who knew infinite’ is a biographical movie of Indian Mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan (played by Dev Patel) and his association with British mathematician GH Hardy. Ramanujan was a self-taught (autodidatic) Mathematician- born and died in Madras Presidency.
(ii) He, who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he became a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy.