![]() ![]() ![]() When I look around my colleagues, I don't see that." Films like A Beautiful Mind and Pi show mathematicians as social misfits, people on the fringe of mental illness or mentally ill. The formula is representative of the truth about the world, which is what I think about mathematics.I think there's a stereotype in the culture. The film is inspired by Yukio Mishima's The Rite of Love and Death and has been well received at international film festivals, but I fear it is destined to be interpreted differently than Frenkel intended.įrenkel has been quoted as saying, "Our film is about truth. ![]() UC-Berkeley mathematical physicist Edward Frenkel wrote and stars in this short film about a mathematician who is determined to kill himself after he discovers the formula for love. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]()
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