Posted on 04/30/2016 8:09:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Usually don’t pay attention to movies. May have to see this one.
I am amazed at people who are wired that way.
I have a friend who can look at complex equations and see a mistake instantly.
Me? I can’t count to 21 unless I am naked.
I have the book. This movie sounds interesting to me
I see what you did there...
Reminds me of the old saw about the Arab who invented the zero: when he was praised on the accomplishment, he said it was really nothing.
This guy was mentioned in the movie, Good Will Hunting
Don't gain any weight or your math skills will degrade.
Maybe he just...evolved.
The Arabs did not invent zero, the Indians did. The Arabs learned of zero while killing millions of Indians during the many Islamic invasions of India.
Wiki
The concept of zero as a digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India, presumably as early as during the Gupta period (c. 5th century), with the oldest unambiguous evidence dating to the 7th century
I might have been interested, too. But the remark by Hardy about being “romantic” with the Indian, is a turnoff. All we need is another movie pushing perversion.
The Arabs never had an orginial idea!
My bad; thanks for the FYI.
FWIW, a little parental crowing...my son started failing math in the 4th grade, and after a few teacher conferences we finally realized it was because he was bored to death. Since it was a Lutheran school and the teachers and we went to the same church, I was able to set up a compromise: son promised to do the assignments, and in return I would teach him pre-algebra. Long story short, he finished high school with calculus III, and took the advanced math summer camp for entering freshpersons at Rose-Hulman, by which point he had long left his father behind (my limit, no pun intended, was practical calculus for the MBA). He's in his 30s and a transportation planner in AZ now.
From the article: “Their rare and at times fraught collaboration makes for an entertaining film. This is in spite its sprinkling in bits of math throughout, which some viewers might find daunting. For example, upon hearing about a taxi’s number 1729, Ramanujan pointed out that that it’s the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways (1 cubed plus 12 cubed and 6 cubed plus 10 cubed).”
Did anyone else read this and immediately know it’s wrong?
Guess I know what gender you are LOL.
Calculus III is one of the more difficult calculus classes. I passed Differential Equations (Calculus 4) put I knew I reached my limit at least in that field of mathematics. Now linear Algebra was fun and very useful too. Sadly it's been so long ago I've mostly forgotten all I learned. Good job on your son.
Infinity is being stuck with the wrong woman...
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