**Book:** ***Dream State, 2025*** **by Eric Puchner** Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, *Dream State* explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past—both our own and the ones we’ve inherited. Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, *Dream State* is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence. **Movie: The Man Who Knew Infinity, 2015 Directed by Matthew Brown** **On SBS on demand.** A British [biographical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_film "Biographical film") [drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_(genre) "Drama (genre)") film about the Indian mathematician [Srinivasa Ramanujan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan "Srinivasa Ramanujan"), based on the 1991 [book of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_(book) "The Man Who Knew Infinity (book)") by [Robert Kanigel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kanigel "Robert Kanigel"). The film stars [Dev Patel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Patel "Dev Patel") as [Srinivasa Ramanujan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan "Srinivasa Ramanujan"), a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in [Madras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras "Madras"), [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India"), earns admittance to [Cambridge University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University "Cambridge University") during [World War I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I "World War I"), where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of English mathematician and fellow collaborator, [G. H. Hardy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy "G. H. Hardy"), portrayed by [Jeremy Irons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Irons "Jeremy Irons"). https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/the-man-who-knew-infinity/1482206787555 **Podcast: Innovation - from the spinning jenny to AI** **Rear Vision 13 March 2026 on ABC Listen** A wide-angle lens on the history of Innovation. The past 250 years has seen an unprecedented surge in human ingenuity — creating six great waves of innovation. What drove these breakthroughs? And where are we now headed? https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/innovation/106378832