Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’

“The Boy With The Incredible Brain” (2005) – Review #31

Also known as “Brainman”. Daniel Tammet is a young man with “high-functioning autistic savant syndrome”. In other words, he’s smart as hell. We follow him to the States where scientists get baffled at his extraordinary mental abilities. For example, he has a stop-over in Iceland where he learns the language in a week, he does [...]

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“Fermat’s Last Theorem” (1996) – Review #22

7 long years. That’s how much time Andrew Wiles spent fighting a mathematical problem to which no one knew if there existed a solution. The film is a beautiful, little gem about human endurance represented by a very modest man. Who knew mathematics could be this exciting? The doc is not available on DVD anywhere, [...]

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