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Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a math student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles. Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great enigma and told to use pseudonyms based on famous historical mathematicians. At the house, they are ...
Cover of Carter Brown's novel Nymph to the Slaughter by Robert McGinnis, 1963. Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) [1] is an American artist and illustrator.McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, [2] and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (his first film poster assignment), [3] Barbarella, and several James Bond and ...
At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas
Some mathematicians see beauty in mathematical results that establish connections between two areas of mathematics that at first sight appear to be unrelated. [5] These results are often described as deep. While it is difficult to find universal agreement on whether a result is deep, some examples are more commonly cited than others.
An upcoming book and movie both entitled Hidden Figures tell the story of NASA's female African-American mathematicians back in the 1960's. Johnson was one of those women who served as the space ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
3) Cady Heron in "Mean Girls" Being the new kid in school definitely isn't easy, yet somehow Cady Heron (a transplant from the wilds of Africa) manages to rise to the top of the social food chain.
John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 [1] – February 6, 2008) [2] was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many movie posters. [2] Alvin created posters and key art [1] for more than 135 films, beginning with the poster for Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974). [2]