Sir Ben Kingsley, essays Perci Trachtenberg, regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician. Perci meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever but one that has imprinted guilt - for many painful reasons - on Venkat's life. As it turns out, the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness.