“The Man Who Knew Infinity,” December 17 2017 (2015), DVD, home. This biopic stars Dev Patel as S Ramanugan, the brilliant, self-taught Indian mathematician, and Jeremy Irons as GH Hardy, the Cambridge math don he worked with during the years preceding and during WWI. Leaving his young wife at home in India, he sought to find his way through a cold and unwelcoming Britain, where even the emotionally walled off Hardy could not really welcome him. Facing brutal verbal and physical racial discrimination and abuse as an Indian, a non-college student, and a mathematician outside the tradition of rigorous proof demanded by his demanding mentors, his flights of mathematical imagination leaped to solutions few could comprehend, appreciate or accept. We see the. fall into TB that eventually took his life after his return to India along with his struggle to validate and provide proofs for his leaps of intuitive genius. I really looked forward to this and was glad to watch it, but there was something strangely flat about the filming and writing (Matt Brown, director and scriptwriter) that left me feeling colder than I’d anticipated.