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If I remember the book correctly, they talk more about their attempt at using numbers, but due to the way heptapods think (all of time happening at once), the m
by plttn 10y ago
If I remember the book correctly, they talk more about their attempt at using numbers, but due to the way heptapods think (all of time happening at once), the math concepts are actually harder than physical concepts.
- lutusp 10y ago> If I remember the book correctly ... No book, sad to say. The movie is based on a Ted Chiang short story named "The story of your life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life There are a number of books out there named "The Arrival" or a variation thereof, but they have no connection with the movie. I only post this to keep people from ordering books with that name, hoping to acquire more depth than the movie provides. Not to disparage the movie, which I regard as first-rate.
- plttn 10y agoRight. I meant to say the short story.
- rthomas6 10y agoIf I remember correctly, in the short story, the heptapods had a more fundamental grasp of calculus and continuous math, and derived algebraic concepts from that. Kind of like the inverse of how humans do it.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoThat came out in the movie too, and it was not remotely believable there. It was where you had to turn on your suspension of disbelief and enjoy the Blinkenlights.