Jason Padgett was a normal futon salesman. But following a traumatic brain injury, he suddenly acquired the brain power of a savant.

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“Just like Mozart could hear a symphony in his head, you dance with numbers up to infinity,” says Professor Hardy (Jeremy Irons), admiringly, to his protégé Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a ...

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