Mathematics in Movies

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Post by fachoper » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:29 PM UTC

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Post by nate_martin » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 9:02 PM UTC

I'm kind of surprised this list doesn't include Darren Aronofsky's "Pi". The film touches on a lot of interesting topics such as digit repetition in pi, financial market machine learning, fibonacci spirals and number theory.

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Post by sytelus » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 9:50 PM UTC

Nice collection. I wanted to add many of these movies in my Netflix queue and found this handy bookmarklet called Cue That http://www.cuethat.com/. You can select movie title and add it in Netflix queue quickly.

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Post by icebraining » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

nate_martin wrote: post #2

I'm kind of surprised this list doesn't include Darren Aronofsky's "Pi". The film touches on a lot of interesting topics such as digit repetition in pi, financial market machine learning, fibonacci spirals and number theory.

It does: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/swf/pi_pattern...

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Post by mostafaberg » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #4

nate_martin wrote: post #2

I'm kind of surprised this list doesn't include Darren Aronofsky's "Pi". The film touches on a lot of interesting topics such as digit repetition in pi, financial market machine learning, fibonacci spirals and number theory.

It does: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/swf/pi_pattern...

I was just going to say the same thing then caught your link, thanks for the catch ;)

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Post by wslh » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 10:55 PM UTC

For a nice anecdote from Leonard Adleman about his contribution to Sneakers see http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/fm-sneakers.htm

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Post by Hengjie » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 11:06 PM UTC

I hope they don't send this site DCMA letters.

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 11:08 PM UTC

wslh wrote: post #6

For a nice anecdote from Leonard Adleman about his contribution to Sneakers see http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/fm-sneakers.htm

I found Sneakers a little disappointing.

Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty decent 90s thriller. Very charming. But the way it was described made it out to be as if it portrayed complex cryptographic and technical concepts.

All I really saw was an anagram and some idealized substitution cipher. Fun film, misleading summary.

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Post by anonymfus » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 11:23 PM UTC

"Blackboards in porn": http://blackboardsinporn.blogspot.com/

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Post by pliny » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

Is the error from A Serious Man that he wrote

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