I've been tempted to try to read Robert Kanigel's biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity, that the movie is based on. However, I'm not sure I could deal with all the math. The NY Times review of the book made it sound quite daunting!
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/20/books/books-of-the-times-the-man-who-knew-so-much-about-numbers.html
Reading about the math in just the review kind of made my head spin! But it does give the correct pronunciation of Ramanujan. That's something!
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