I do not have the mind for math, and never will, but I detect something interesting here. A well told story about this man and his life would make a good movie. With the right actor and director, I would go see such a film.
This would be the kind of film teachers would bring their young students to see and report about later. A film to make high level math appealing, even cool to some degree. His theories would have to be well watered down for the general public.
If Alec Baldwin wasn’t so pigheaded, he would be good in such a role because of his natural brashness and overconfidence.
The Man Who Knew Infinity is a film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan whose natural talent got him invited to England. He was like a race horse that had to be slowed down: he got the correct conclusions most of the time with a glance and needed to learn how to back them up with proof.