Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?
I did enjoy r/itsaunixsystem on Reddit for many years. A website that collects and maybe analyzes these scenes would be fun.
Mathematics in Movies
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Re: Mathematics in Movies
#12I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
I've always considered this to be a pretty accurate scene: https://youtu.be/watch?v=mYAahN1G8Y8
Also covered by Mathologer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04x4ZdLpN-0
Re: Mathematics in Movies
#13I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
I've always considered this to be a pretty accurate scene: https://youtu.be/watch?v=mYAahN1G8Y8
I 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!
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#14In Cube (1997) the characters are trapped in a labyrinth of sorts made of boxes (cubes) that they can escape by solving math riddles. They're all supposed to be math geniuses, but very early on in the movie they take forever to decide if 645 or 372 are prime numbers... It kind of killed the suspension of disbelief for me right there...
The authors probably didn't meant it, but this is surprisingly realistic of math geniuses (see stories of Grothendieck Prime and Weyl in the following thread)
https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6358/story-of-grothe...
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#15In Cube (1997) the characters are trapped in a labyrinth of sorts made of boxes (cubes) that they can escape by solving math riddles. They're all supposed to be math geniuses, but very early on in the movie they take forever to decide if 645 or 372 are prime numbers... It kind of killed the suspension of disbelief for me right there...
except for the autistic crazy who just somehow knows
but I haven't seen that movie in many years, so I don't remember what he knows
but the actual test was 9 digits? (if i recall well)
I 'memorized' the first 31 primes! why? I'm not sure; but I know how I did it, I don't know what it means tho
Re: Mathematics in Movies
#16Community did the spoof of the good will hunting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkzHJ-6FjU
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#17In Cube (1997) the characters are trapped in a labyrinth of sorts made of boxes (cubes) that they can escape by solving math riddles. They're all supposed to be math geniuses, but very early on in the movie they take forever to decide if 645 or 372 are prime numbers... It kind of killed the suspension of disbelief for me right there...
The authors probably didn't meant it, but this is surprisingly realistic of math geniuses (see stories of Grothendieck Prime and Weyl in the following thread) https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6358/story-of-grothe...
Yeah, finding out if a number is prime or not can be unintuitive. But I doubt Grothendieck would have had trouble with anything divisible by 2 or 5...
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#18Big Bang Theory seems to have done this right.
David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, checked scripts and provided dialogue, mathematics equations, and diagrams used as props.[4] According to executive producer/cocreator Bill Prady, "We're working on giving Sheldon an actual problem that he's going to be working on throughout the [first] season so there's actual progress to the boards ... We worked hard to get all the science right."[5] Saltzberg, who has a Ph.D. in physics, served as the science consultant for the show for six seasons and attended every taping.[23] He saw early versions of scripts that needed scientific information added to them, and he also pointed out where the writers, despite their knowledge of science, had made a mistake. He was usually not needed during a taping unless a lot of science, and especially the whiteboard, was involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory
Re: Mathematics in Movies
#19In Cube (1997) the characters are trapped in a labyrinth of sorts made of boxes (cubes) that they can escape by solving math riddles. They're all supposed to be math geniuses, but very early on in the movie they take forever to decide if 645 or 372 are prime numbers... It kind of killed the suspension of disbelief for me right there...
except for the autistic crazy who just somehow knows but I haven't seen that movie in many years, so I don't remember what he knows but the actual test was 9 digits? (if i recall well) I 'memorized' the first 31 primes! why? I'm not sure; but I know how I did it, I don't know what it means tho
I think you are missing the point here. The only even prime is 2. The only prime ending with a 5 is 5.
The last digit of a prime bigger than 5 can only be 1, 3, 7 and 9.
Re: Mathematics in Movies
#20Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?
Not sure anything can beat the famous CSI hacking the killers IP address using a VB GUI Interface scene.