![]() Along the way, you’ll meet the surprising base-ten expansion of the infinite product. I’m not saying that the film in and of itself is inaccurate, but it does recycle some tropes about mathematics that you’ve probably seen in other movies about mathematicians and that give an inaccurate picture of mathematics. ![]() If I knew as much about movie-making as Matt Brown does, I probably would have made the same choices he did.īut I am going to tell you, fellow-members of the movie-going public, what characteristics of the math life are conveyed by the film, and what characteristics aren’t. ![]() So I’m not going to tell Matt Brown, the writer/director of “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, what he should have done differently in a movie that, as the fine print on the poster reminds us, is merely based on the life of Ramanujan. During my years as a mathematician, not one film-maker has tried to teach me how to write better articles.
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