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The Man Who Knew Infinity film biography

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Question

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

Options

a

S. Ramanujan

Answer
b

S. Chandrasekhar

c

S. N. Bose

d

C. V. Raman

Explanation

The movie 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' released in 2015 is based on the biography of S. Ramanujan (Srinivasa Ramanujan), the legendary Indian mathematician. The film depicts his life story, particularly his journey from India to Cambridge University where he worked with mathematician G.H. Hardy. Ramanujan was born in 1887 in Tamil Nadu and is known for his extraordinary contributions to mathematics, particularly in number theory and infinite series, before his early death in 1920. S. Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist known for the Chandrasekhar limit, S. N. Bose contributed to quantum statistics, and C. V. Raman discovered the Raman effect in physics—none of them were the subject of this particular film.

'The Man Who Knew Infinity': Cinematic tribute to Ramanujan's mathematical genius—a narrative of a self-taught prodigy's transformative journey from Kumbakonam to Cambridge.

Answer: a.

Question details

Year

2016

Paper

GS Paper 1

Question

Q99

Subject

Current Affairs

Sub-topic

Film and biography of notable figures

Type

Factual single

Difficulty

Easy

Nature

Current-affairs-linked

Source hint

Current Affairs 2015-2016

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