Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Mathematics in the Movies

Numb3rs (2005)
A CBS TV series starting its third year, where David Krumholtz plays Charlie Eppes, a "world class" mathematician who helps his brother Don, an FBI agent played by Rob Morrow, solve crimes.

Proof (2005)
Leaving the Wilbur Theater in Boston after seeing the play Proof, a theatergoer remarked "This is the year of mathematicians." Proof is now a movie (Directed by Miramax, staring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins), adapted from David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer winning play. Three of the four main characters are mathematicians. The father character is loosely based on John Nash, but the story is fiction and takes a very different path from A Beautiful Mind, focusing on the daughter.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
All those Hollywood spy cliches turn out to be a brilliant device to let us see what happens from from John Nash's perspective.

A list of more movies collected by a Harvard Professor

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