With the release of the 2015 film The Man Who Knew Infinity (starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons), the book’s index has taken on a new role. Film viewers use the index to find
The index of Kanigel’s biography functions as a micro-narrative of late 19th and early 20th-century intellectual history. It balances three distinct categories of entries: the man who knew infinity index
: The Pursuit (University of Melbourne) blog breaks down the "proof behind the film," specifically focusing on the partition of numbers and the human struggles of the mathematicians. With the release of the 2015 film The
Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava and mathematician Ken Ono served as consultants to ensure the equations on screen were mathematically accurate and written exactly as Ramanujan wrote them. Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava and mathematician Ken Ono
), which form the basis for many high-speed computer algorithms used today.