The Man Who Knew Infinity review – treacly maths drama doesn't quite add up

Dev Patel is maths genius Srinivasa Ramunujan and Jeremy Irons his Cambridge mentor in this well-intentioned movie Related: Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up This well-intentioned drama centres on the extraordinary, little-known story of Srinivasa Ramunujan, a young Indian man at the beginning of the last century whose untrained genius for pure mathematics and a staggering volume of original work produced unaided and outside the academic system stunned the fellows of Tri