In its conclusion, the film underscores the transcendence of the bond between Hardy and Ramanujan. Hardy, a man who claimed to believe in nothing, eventually admits that his association with Ramanujan was the one romantic incident in his life. The "romance" here is intellectual—a meeting of minds that bridged the gap between the East and West, the intuitive and the logical, the finite and the infinite.

: By age 13, he had mastered advanced trigonometry on his own. His primary inspiration came from a 19th-century textbook, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics , which listed thousands of theorems without proofs.