Dev Patel is maths genius Srinivasa Ramunujan and Jeremy Irons his Cambridge mentor in this well-intentioned movie Related: Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up This well-intentioned drama centres on the extraordinary,little-known epic of Srinivasa Ramunujan, a young Indian man at the beginning of the final century whose untrained genius for pure mathematics and a staggering volume of original work produced unaided and outside the academic system stunned the fellows of Trinity College, and Cambridge to whom he had been introduced by his mentor,the distinguished mathematician GH Hardy. Ramunujan battled the reactionary conservatism and racism of the British establishment to become accepted: he is played by Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons plays Hardy; Toby Jones plays Hardy’s kindly colleague John Littlewood; Jeremy Northam contributes a cameo as the twinkly-eyed radical Bertrand Russell. It’s a film with its heart in the legal set, but the problem of how to represent mathematical problems on screen is not really solved – the recent X+Y managed better. At the discontinuance, or it looks like a treacly,albeit high-minded Sunday afternoon drama serial.
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Source: theguardian.com