Nice clips, but I really want a math-knowledgeable person to examine and talk about the equations!
I love math, just can't seem to grasp it. Going on 40 years now....
Mathematics in Movies
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#42I was hoping https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem would be mentioned. Only movies counted, I guess? :D
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Nothing beats NCIS in abusing lack of knowledge around computer and software in the general public: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUdjeu4C6A (getting hacked through a power cable and fighting with 4 hands on a keyboard)
I had never seen this show before and somehow stumbled across the 4 hands on a keyboard episode. It was awesome inspiring how terrible it was
Rumour is that the script writers tried to outdo themselves in who can slip the most ridiculous tech scenario into an episode.
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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...
My math is rusty enough to find it helpful to explicate that 2*5 is the complete factorization to primes of 10, and our customary arithmetic base for numbers written on the page is likewise 10.
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what is the OC? whose replies?? I think I gotta somehow get a better understanding of Mersenne and Eisenstein primes, but I don't like jumping through 'bureaucratic'-academic hoops to get things explained to me. it's only numbers, I have other things to do
If number end in 2 or 5, is divisible by 2 or 5. So number ending in 2 or 5 cannot be prime. Math no hard to understand!
but this is only because 10 in ten in decimal system
but the numbers are not (only) how they're written down!
meh...
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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.
I'm looking for some point? also, you're focused on base 10. And that 1,3,7,9 is the basis of the how i remember them: 11,13,17,19 then 23 AND ALSO 101,103,107,109, and then 113. but why!? I learned that all twin primes in base 4 either end in 1 xor 3. and I know that all primes congruent to 1 modulo 4 can factorized into a complex number with its conjugate (Gaussian primes). But I don't understand this, I only 'know…
Not a down-voter of this, but author is missing the understanding that the set of primes is intrinsic to the integers and the definition of multiplication, and in not in any way dependent upon how integers are written on the page (or in the memory of a computer).
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#47I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
Yep, 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.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
If number end in 2 or 5, is divisible by 2 or 5. So number ending in 2 or 5 cannot be prime. Math no hard to understand!
but this is only because 10 in ten in decimal system but the numbers are not (only) how they're written down! meh...
Everything you've written is gibberish in spanish, why did you do that?
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but this is only because 10 in ten in decimal system but the numbers are not (only) how they're written down! meh...
Everything you've written is gibberish in spanish, why did you do that?
cuz it happens to be the first spoken language I learned?
does this answer your question? if not, maybe this can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOtR2A5agc
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#50In "My Little Pony the movie" Twilight Sparkle explains to Celestia and Luna how she wants the Sun and the Moon organized. She uses mathematical formula written on a blackboard. I can't recall what the formula was, probably wavelength calculation.