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| Breaking the code [IMDb link] |
| The enigma and its complexity appears in this movie on the Mathematician Alan Turing. (The movie still appears only on VHS in the US, I guess because the movie is still not considered suited for a typical US audience. I have seen it first in 1997 at the university of Arizona, where there had been an active "Math movie club"). |
| 1996 |
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| Star trek The Next generation [IMDb link] |
| Probably the most hilarious (stupid?) statement about dimension in the galaxy appears in the epiosode "Where silence has Lease": "Is the lack of a dimension a dimension by itself?" Negative dimension. Mathematicians have not yet come up with this idea, but mathematicians have used also some time to come up with negative numbers. |
| 2002 |
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| The Oxford Murders [IMDb link] |
| Lecture on Wittgensteins pessimistic view on absolute truth followed by rather shallow sound bites: the beauty and harmony of numbers, the golden ratio, Fibonnacci, snowflakes and cancer, the secret meaning of numbers, the butterfly which flaps its wings to produce a hurricane which nobody can predict, logic and chance. Thanks to Detlev Beutner for the suggestion. |
| 2008 |
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| Run Lola Run [IMDb link] |
| Beside the main theme of "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", there is a "run of Lola" in which she wins in roulette twice betting on the same number 20, multiplying the initial input of 100 mark by 352. The second bet has an element of Grass's Blechtrommel cry, mathematically related to "resonance". |
| 1998 |
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| Apocalypse Now [IMDb link] |
| Surrounded by horror, forms of poetry, physics and math appear in a mad form too. Photojournalist: "this is dialectics, simple dialectics. It is very simple dialectics: 1 through 9, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel to space. You can not go to space with fractions. What do you land on: on one quarter or 3/8th? What do you do when you go to venus or something. Thats dialectic. Physics. Dialectic logic is: there is only love or hate." |
| 1979 |
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| Alice in Wonderland [IMDb link] |
| Fooling around with complements. The unbirthday. Its a small world, most people share an unbirthday. Carol might have been inspired by the birthday paradox: in a class of 23 the chance to have two kids with the same birthday is already more than 1/2. (Thanks to Tania Moloney for the suggestion). |
| 1951 |
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| Marius [IMDb link] |
| Bartender Cesar lectures Marius on mixing a picon-citron-curacao: one very small third of curacao, one third of citron, then a large third of picon. And to finish, a large third of water. (Movie suggested by Billy Carson) |
| 1931 |
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