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Sorry if slightly off topic: This reminds of me a great play about a young, fictional mathematician woman that comes to great insights about chaos and entropy i
by SpaceManNabs 7y ago
Sorry if slightly off topic: This reminds of me a great play about a young, fictional mathematician woman that comes to great insights about chaos and entropy in the universe.
The ending is beautiful.
"Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard
- ghaff 7y agoMy favorite of Stoppard's plays. (Which is a very high bar.)
- pseudolus 7y agoIn a similar vein there was also David Auburn's "Proof" which featured a female mathematician following in the footsteps of her mentally ill mathematician father. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(play) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(play)
- dkural 7y agoArcadia was infinitely better imho. Proof is formulaic (didactic and on the nose on its moralizing theme) and propagates a number of stereotypes about mathematicians around mental health and the lone genius etc.