There are not many movies about mathematics or mathematicians and there are even less popular movies about the subject (Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind are a couple of examples). So when I saw the movie “The Man Who Knew Infinity” on Netflix I eagerly watched it. I remember seeing a picture of Srinivasa Ramanujan in my math text book when I was a high school student and reading a small caption about him telling me that he was a brilliant mathematician who developed theorems despite having grown up in poverty without formal education. I wanted to watch the movie because I wanted to know…