Mathematics in Movies
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Mathematics in Movies
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#2Cool! I love collections like this :) A 10-min format and sort (alphabetical or chronological) would make this so much more scanable though
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#3Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?
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#4I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
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#5Had the privilege of Oliver Knill teaching me Multivariable Calculus. It wasn’t my favorite course, but his excitement when he started to talk about math was truly inspiring.
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#6I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.
Basically “what English majors’ idea if math is”.
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#7I 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
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#8Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?
Was about to ask that! haha..
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#9In 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...
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#10Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?
You may enjoy https://behind-the-screens.tv/