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Who was the real life person that the book, ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, is based on?
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The book is based on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Ramanujan was a brilliant mathematician who worked at the University of Madras in India. He was self-taught and wrote his first paper on math at the age of 13. He is famous for his work on infinite series and continued fractions.