Hal: You read a lot of maths. Catherine: I read Cosmo. It is just a window dressing.
Sadly this quote seems to apply to the whole film. Maybe it was unfortunate that I had chosen to watch the DVD of Pi the same day, as this film paled by comparison. It struck me that the director must have shied away from including any kind of mathematical content whatsoever. We see all the great passions, jealousies and hidden motives, but never do we see what everyone is getting so excited about. It would be like making a film about art and never showing a painting.
It strikes me that this is the work of a literary type who just took the academic world he knew and transferred the setting from the English to Maths departments without taking the time to read up on the subject. The film seems content to work on only one level, and is incalculably diminished by the decisions.
The concept of prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians for thousands of years and still we are no closer to proving whether there are an infinite number of them. Unfortunately this film has nothing informative to say on the matter.
Sadly this quote seems to apply to the whole film. Maybe it was unfortunate that I had chosen to watch the DVD of Pi the same day, as this film paled by comparison. It struck me that the director must have shied away from including any kind of mathematical content whatsoever. We see all the great passions, jealousies and hidden motives, but never do we see what everyone is getting so excited about. It would be like making a film about art and never showing a painting.
It strikes me that this is the work of a literary type who just took the academic world he knew and transferred the setting from the English to Maths departments without taking the time to read up on the subject. The film seems content to work on only one level, and is incalculably diminished by the decisions.
The concept of prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians for thousands of years and still we are no closer to proving whether there are an infinite number of them. Unfortunately this film has nothing informative to say on the matter.