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I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
by push-to-prod 3y ago
I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
- matt-attack 3y agoBasically “what English majors’ idea if math is”.
- raspyberr 3y agoI've always considered this to be a pretty accurate scene: https://youtu.be/watch?v=mYAahN1G8Y8 https://youtu.be/watch?v=mYAahN1G8Y8
- gilleain 3y agoAlso covered by Mathologer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04x4ZdLpN-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04x4ZdLpN-0
- qsort 3y agoI haven't seen that movie, but yeah, cringe violin aside, that's both a very realistic example of a simple Olympiad-style problem and an actually valid math proof!
- Syzygies 3y agoYep, but beware of anyone who makes criticism their identity. That's a mindset that predetermines perception. As math consultant to "A Beautiful Mind" I waited six hours so Russell Crowe could ask me where to look when he declared that Jennifer Connelly's solution to the blackboard problem was wrong. He cared about details. Then Jennifer asked me if I was making her look like a yahoo. I explained that in testing a professor had given her answer. Various people get wigged out that the young student in the late library scene was spouting math that was well known. Um, ever been a student? I'd made this same observation to Barry Mazur in the hallway as a student, and he just grinned, "It's all connected!" Meanwhile, no one addressed my partial proof of the Riemann Hypothesis that Nash had left on a board. In the Harvard Lecture Hall scene, Nash compared space-time to the quaternions. Um, he was about to be institutionalized? I knew I had to use this line after the look Brian Greene gave me when I tried it on him. Still, it bothers critics. Ron Howard found it helpful to think of the math as an actor. That was great direction for me.