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A recent movie titled 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' is based on the biography of

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Correct Answer: A — S. RamanujanSolution:'The Man Who Knew Infinity' (2015 film, directed by Matt Brown) is a biographical drama based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel, which tells the life story of the legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920). The film stars Dev Patel as Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as his mentor, Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy. The film depicts Ramanujan's extraordinary mathematical genius, his journey from Madras to Cambridge University, his collaboration with Hardy, and his struggles with health and cultural differences in England. The title refers to Ramanujan's seemingly infinite mathematical insight and his work on number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. The film was screened at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).Why other options are incorrect:Option B (S. Chandrasekhar): Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) was a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist famous for the Chandrasekhar limit — not the subject of this film.Option C (S. N. Bose): Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974) was a physicist famous for Bose-Einstein statistics and the Boson particle — not the subject of this film.Option D (C. V. Raman): Sir C. V. Raman (1888–1970) was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist famous for the Raman Effect — not the subject of this film.Key Concept: Srinivasa Ramanujan is one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses. Born in Erode (Tamil Nadu), he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics but independently developed extraordinary results in: number theory, infinite series, continued fractions, and mock theta functions. His famous notebooks contain thousands of results, many proven only decades after his death. The Hardy-Ramanujan number (1729) — the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways — is one of the most famous anecdotes in mathematical history. National Mathematics Day (December 22) is celebrated in India on Ramanujan's birthday.

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