UPSC Civil Services 2016 Prelims General Studies Paper I

(i) 'The Man who knew infinite" is a biographical movie of Indian Mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan (played by Dev Patel) and his association with British mathematician GH Hardy. Ramanujan was a self-taught (autodidatic) Mathematician- born and died in Madras Presidency.
(ii) He, who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he became a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy.