The Best Movies For Mathematicians

[@DavidRTribble]

0:13 - Good Will Hunting 1:16 - The Man Who knew Infinity (Ramanujan) 3:40 - 21 7:04 - A Beautiful Mind

[@omarmohamad6017]

Thanks

[@user-jn6hj1cd1h]

Thanks

[@dorismahmud6709]

Thank u

[@tez817]

Thanks

[@kunwardpjauhrane2245]

धन्यवाद

[@elle2498]

My dad is a math teacher, and my mom studied physics and chemistry, my sister is doing computer engineering, and I.....HATE MATH. So I'm a writer 🙃 (Edit 2020: Thank you for the likes and crazy comments)

[@King_gamer407]

I hate you im the math

[@elle2498]

@@King_gamer407 I'm not genius but I have a 4.0 GPA so I don't know how math helps me with this 🙃

[@pedrocaballero6625]

Follow your aspirations. That’s always the way to go

[@elle2498]

@Mike Jones same here omg

[@elle2498]

@@pedrocaballero6625 thanks :)

[@cassiaprior453]

Man, that song at the end scared the living daylights out of me.

[@Shikuretto746]

I almost throw my phone lol

[@damienerickson4182]

Thank goodness you warned me

[@ericlukaszekdocarmo8216]

I almost fucking died

[@huda5533]

As I was reading your comment the song started lol😂😂

[@roannebello3408]

The volume was high that I got a mini heart attack. I didn't see that song coming lol

[@pighalf5161]

I really love math, but math doesn’t love me. 😭😂

[@hugomediacompany5078]

Same here

[@捻くれ者に人生頑張れを届け]

Asphyxia PH true I understand you

[@stevenalmario7545]

No...math loves you,all you need to do is to get used of it

[@Rae-vc8cm]

F 😢

[@djdamalerio6466]

Why

[@blessedevil6031]

I watched _The Man Who Knew Infinity_ because _Ramanujan_ was mentioned on _Good Will Hunting_

[@AmitRajCVRegno]

Movie kidhr mila

[@darkseid856]

He was one of the greatest mathematician of all time !

[@ashwanichaudhary5910]

@@darkseid856 yup bro

[@roenzmengiemagaling4373]

Ramanujan also mentioned on x+y movie

[@bibekanandamahato1522]

Srinibas Ramanujan was an Indian

[@se7entv261]

Seriously why do i love seeing people talking about math in movies but not in the class

[@prithviaj459]

Large variable of it depends on what class and/or school you go to

[@norb6492]

In class, particularly in maths, we must learn step by step. If the lecture goes even one step ahead of what you’ve learned, you start to feel like a lost idiot. You are not. You just need a little more time, or another example, or some such. Given more time and information, most can lean maths much further than expected. Watching a film, you skip all this, and go for the gold immediately. Quite exciting, in part because we all remember the rush of pleasure from really understanding a mathematical principle for the first time. Nothing quite like it.

[@vikaspawar4943]

Man who knew infinity Was touching :'(

[@Mathelite-ii4hd]

Yo man.(crying inside)

[@rfox2163]

Such a good movie

[@ammarmemon3129]

Made me cry. Genius couldn't live longer

[@rupantiii]

Very touching...

[@AshokKumar-bw6mq]

vikas pawar it is a heart touching movie....... One of the greatest movie forever........I like this movie very much....

[@77headshoter]

That final song ruined the whole video

[@July...]

How dare you insult Charlie Puth! But yea I almost had a panick attack....

[@nohakurosaki8203]

@@July... me too. I had put the audio volume at full power and the sudden song scared the shit outta me 😅

[@athayphom3551]

😂

[@olamidearibisala]

@@nohakurosaki8203 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😳😂😂😂😂😂 happened to me several times

[@fuzzyredponcho]

Diogo Barbosa why they didn’t get copyright for that?

[@perfectlyimperfect4585]

Who else is not a mathematician and clicked to see what this was about 😂🙃😅

[@oldschoolfootball9517]

Me

[@shoopa]

KZbin Algorithm doing it's job

[@noah4954]

Me

[@rymayores]

Me i like to pretend im smart

[@sissousissou9042]

@@rymayores 😂 you are smart

[@zolyx5395]

Movies in order of appearance: Good Will Hunting The Man Who Knew Infinity 21 A Beautiful Mind Suggestions: Imitation Game X+Y PI (1998) Theory of everything (kinda) Stand and deliver (1988) Hidden Figures Gifted (2017)

[@antoniovelazquez6021]

Stand and deliver 1988

[@Paul34433214343]

X+Y is the most boring movie.

[@bilalshanebond]

Pi

[@stevethorn9156]

Life of Pi?

[@bilalshanebond]

No dear its only Pi see the link below www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

[@davidk7212]

I wish more people knew the difference between adding/multiplying big numbers in your head and doing actual mathematics.

[@sachitvarshney1495]

Do know a strange fact in Kota city of every jee aspirants have solved Sl Loney trignometry and coordinate geometry , Hall and Knights higher algebra , I.E IRODOV , AND MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS BY GN BERNARD AT AGE OF 13TO 16 ( max ) at least once but still our parents call us dummies and idiots as the level of question paper is totally tangent .

[@glennredwine289]

​@sachitvarshney1495 God, I hated writing proofs from the number theory class I had for my credential. GRRR!!

[@simar1846]

I learned math in WAKANDA so it does not apply outside WAKANDA

[@TheIlidius]

wakanda math is that?

[@mooganthefirst9560]

Wakanda foreva

[@pactumexcello9308]

Math is a language to explain. And Algebra itself is pretty new at 9th century, introduced by an Arab Mathematician name Khawarizm on his book named "Al Jabbar". So before that, including at Phytagoras era, the Math as we know it today did not exist

[@calebwanjiku164]

Moment of silence for wakanda believers😂

[@serbaguna161]

I learn math in wkwk land.

[@phantasmsurrealist5004]

I love math but i suck at it.

[@sarahbarnes8562]

yes it is, i feel the same

[@moglibora]

you are in good company then..Einstein used to feel the same way

[@bangbang7903]

1+1=2 I'm good at math Like 1malegender +1femalegendeer = 2 genders Unless you're a liberal & believe 1+1=infinity genders 😂

[@letsgoooooo1]

Practice makes perfect

[@alicianevins939]

OMG, I am the same!! I watch videos about stuff like linear equations and the polar form of complex numbers and write them down, but the thing is, I can't understand any of it!

[@rfox2163]

The Man who knew Infinity is a FANTASTIC movie

[@efisgpr]

Beauty & brains....wow

[@waseemaslamdeedar4916]

7006231309!!!

[@arpitshukla2409]

He is ramanujan (india)

[@AdvaitBajaj]

Yes it truly is. Although I don't understand it much...

[@admiralsoul3057]

Yeah but check out his equation which is literally why the movie got the title

[@thesyndicate3859]

Mathematicians do not listen to weird pop music like “we don’t talk anymore”

[@londonisboss52]

Haha yeah right guys I'm so smart I only listen to classical music to own the dumb sheeple and reinforce my intellectual superiority

[@thesyndicate3859]

Londonisboss well I can tell you intellectual people don’t even listen to much music. I myself listen to many genres of music. But without listening to music, you concentrate better and your mind is clearer.

[@li.d0709]

The Syndicate true

[@adityashukla2635]

At first I thought you were offending pop music but at the end of the video I get it.

[@thesyndicate3859]

@@adityashukla2635 Yup, doesn't fit in there at all. Especially that song is very childish for this setting.

[@krikra2000]

If you want your math friend to talk the whole movie about how easy the math problems actually are, yeah go and watch it with them. Never again.

[@krishnaazade7578]

Your number please

[@michaelgee683]

😂😂😂😂

[@briansmith8967]

Great. Had to turn up the volume to 11 to hear the movie dialog, then that horrible music blasted its way out of my speakers to make my ears bleed.

[@battudya67]

Thank you........... I thought I had become tone deaf suddenly.

[@olamidearibisala]

@@battudya67 😂😂😂😂😂😂tone deaf🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@The_Beast_666]

Brian Smith ROTFFLMAO

[@pcbacklash_3261]

And now we can add "Hidden Figures," "Gifted" and "The Imitation Game!"

[@LightningShiva1]

*Physicists : Interstellar*

[@geberna]

Physicists*

[@saicharan6013]

Physicians are doctors

[@Chrismasterski]

hey man, most physicists are doctors

[@geberna]

Chrismasterski Haha fair - but of philosophy not medicine

[@LightningShiva1]

Henri Greenbaum Sorry lol.

[@Amankumar-wy1tx]

The man who knew infinity is biopic of great mathematician Ramanujan

[@agendasthatbee8590]

I think it is DR OYIBO

[@incognitohuman1959]

@@agendasthatbee8590 no no no

[@levib2945]

Why is a non linear equation class asking probability questions???

[@yourmahbuddy1580]

I was thinking about it too the whole dam time

[@younlok1081]

but i can't understand why he switched can u tell me pls

[@younlok1081]

@glyn hodges anyone

[@younlok1081]

@@yourmahbuddy1580 ??

[@younlok1081]

@glyn hodges i understand it from another comment but ty

[@kaslogan5597]

1: Good will hunting 2: the man who knew infinite 3: 21 4: beautiful mind

[@Atlas92936]

"welcome to Princeton... gentleman..." WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE

[@edomeindertsma6669]

So unfitting.

[@ukraniasanjiwani350]

Lol 😂

[@sofias562]

😂

[@abhayjaiswal9836]

The beauty of mathematics and passion for it can unlock a new world

[@cianapina6583]

Not good at math... Not bad at math.... Still watches movies like this✌️ *Alan Turing will always have a place in my heart! Forever. He is brilliant and my favorite mathematician ever. Period.*

[@gmanakos]

Best movies for mathematicians: **Starts with a chalk board full of Physics equations**

[@jimmonroe5193]

Physics is but applied math : )

[@anonymouswombat2354]

mathematics were invented for physics, especially higher math, so actually it does make sense

[@cesarjom]

some equations are physics but most are just nonsensical; by that I mean random variable/symbols that don't make any sense together. It would have been easy to open a text book and just copy eg Einstein's GR field equations or Maxwell's EM equations for the "chalkboard" but I guess no one cares about that level of authenticity :)

[@Laocoon283]

@@anonymouswombat2354 mathematics wasn't evented for physics lol. That is such a broad statement.

[@okinseymcron5798]

Physics are maths

[@erwintighanon6637]

Imagine. A mathematician watches this and correct the solution of the character.

[@shubhankargupta1791]

Ramanujan was best

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

hey yes Ramanujan indeed and well Indians are born mathematicians. By the way I am Shubhankar Dasgupta

[@Anand_Kumar88]

Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan is best forever.

[@jhutfre4855]

yep the indians are badasess in math, informatics ...

[@shiku_Styles]

Yup

[@nixontanlacambra3171]

i proud of indians most of them are good I.T's in google

[@Tokidito]

I like math. Do u like math? Can you replace my X without asking Y?

[@kytu25]

I'm gonna use that

[@Tokidito]

Ky Tu go get it tiger

[@marwaalmira7798]

smooth 😆

[@johnquick4880]

What is x ?

[@carlokroll2991]

john quick :D

[@calebwanjiku164]

Math is simple when someone else does it. Wait until it's your turn to do it, " where do I start?" 😂😂

[@darkseid856]

Man this is so true !! XD

[@mikeejoybaldonado6898]

Hahahhaha so this is me!😂 My sister she loves math so she took Accountancy Course.

[@hehe8948]

Hahaha

[@quincysbusstop1729]

There is a guy in my class who is exactly like the boy in the second clip. And he is a good friend of mine. Boi he justs looks at a problem and says the answer even if he didn't read the chapter. Till now he has failed in statistics, physics, maths in some tests. In our chemistry lab, he never listens to the teacher. He always wants to do something new. And he is the type of guy who just likes to come and say to me that,"hey, listen post Malone uploaded a video yesterday at 10:01 pm and it had got like ? Views by the next five minutes. I was among the first viewers". This boy is really crazy. If he watches films he watches it from 6 pm to 3 am. He can just finish the whole series. Having such a friend is weird, funny and frustrating as well coz his language is very different. Anyways, I am just an average person. If I personally cannot do anything great then I can atleast help the great ones to do something great. Who cares tho...it's frustrating I know but still...he appreciates me as a friend.

[@anxdry_]

Sangeet Quincy don't feel so bad about yourself (maybe you didn’t mean it, but it sounded so sad)

[@quincysbusstop1729]

@@anxdry_ I kinda meant it. In reference to all those who are just "average" in studies.

[@capivaraalfa6179]

i personally believe anyone can learn to do anything with enough effort and dedication not saying you'll become a genius, but your abilities of problem solving (or any other activity) will certainly increase and even make you become one of the greats, if you just give yourself to it and believe in your progress

[@quincysbusstop1729]

@@capivaraalfa6179 yep

[@rodygutierrez1385]

Dude the song of the end of the vid scared the heck out of me 😂😯 it was too loud

[@eave01]

Omg me too!

[@staz9513]

me three

[@Dr00pysp00n]

WE DONT TALK ANYMORE

[@ssaucecar3677]

I was in the process of reading this comment when i jumped from it

[@haorayner9136]

It was shit but ok

[@Jayashree-babu]

Up to my 9th grade ,I am so week in math and I never got a good grade even because, l am not interested and l never practice ,when l come to my 10 th grade, l don't know what happened,l started to work so hard and then my final exam result is that I can't believe in my own eyes because ,l never crossed 70 out of 100 before ,but l got 98:).After that math seems to me so interesting and easy ,l am graduating know .Till know my grade never moved below 90 .It's even not about grade loving a subject means a lot,hard work pays,never give up :)

[@marvinsebourn2535]

One of the best reviews here, shree. osugeography

[@WorldGotTalent1]

Movies in order of appearance: Good Will Hunting The Man Who Knew Infinity 21 A Beautiful Mind Suggestions: Imitation Game X+Y

[@hafidihwan7260]

I think Gifted also best movie for mathematicians

[@rahulsreekumar2562]

Thats not about maths at all.

[@sohansen3575]

Nah....

[@AndrewHaan]

Did anyone else pause the beginning to look at all the equations? I understood 2 of them, feeling accomplished

[@richey4801]

even tho i am avrage at math i feel fascinated by it lol

[@sohamc7402]

SimpleDude your dp is my laptop wallpaper

[@HawxHunter]

Maths*

[@arun_kanwar]

same here buddy

[@trickcyclists]

You might be "avrage" at math, but you're definitely shite at English. ..

[@phillipleblanc7823]

Clearly, English is your strong suit.

[@allenofatlanta]

While " Good Will Hunting " used mathematics as the backdrop, or a theme for the movie, it's main plot/focus was a troubled young man that isolated himself in his own thought palace. The character Will ( played by Matt Damon ) related to his preoccupation with mathematics and expressed his frustration with interpersonal relationships via anger & violence. Good Will Hunting celebrated mathematics and academic achievement. However, it was not the primary purpose of the movie.

[@TheDude-yw4kn]

Damn Allen! You spoiled the movie! Wait...you're 21 years too late. Lol

[@stevethorn9156]

Allen of Atlanta ..and your point is....

[@arifgunawan7772]

Allen of Atlanta yes...indeed. I agree /w you

[@kinjalbhar3296]

so is the case with 21!

[@Amidamaru492]

Allen of Atlanta True. I was a little disappointed at the end. But it's a good movie

[@Jeyanth]

Salutes to Ramanujan the great.... Proud to Indian especially a tamilan

[@AgglomeratiProduzioni]

Just a little tip for future film-makers: mathematicians don't actually say "thirty-three point three percent" while talking, they just say "one third" like normal people.

[@MCMasters4ever]

which would be incorrect

[@danbo967]

My math teacher was a Professor and Doctor in Mathematics and he explicitly insisted in read all the decimal numbers separately and as precise as possible: 33,34% not thirty three coma thirty four nor one third but thirty three coma three four We use coma instead of point in Germany.

[@invalidchars]

They had to dumb it down. Not sure a lot of people would know that two thirds is greater than one third because of fractions.

[@Nathan-oe8ut]

Uhh, yeah they do. You've never taken a maths class higher than high-school I assume?

[@chrisstokes25]

Thank you for the extra one-third percent? Makes no sense to say it that way. He said thank you for the extra 33.3 percent because that's how any normal person would say it.

[@gdwilliam2841]

I'm asian and that means.. *I must like Math*

[@jakobygames]

Do you tho.

[@10bwonder]

That you have a tiny weewee ?

[@itsmidtrib1569]

Doesn't matter if you like it, your parents expect you to succeed.

[@mariyariya3279]

[GD] WilliaM I'm asian and my major is mathematics!

[@jefferyjames8292]

I'm fail math (additional Mathematics). Besic mathematics just pass But good ni Geography now I'm confused😥 BTW my English also just pass not credit...why...why...study hard but still failure😥

[@mrmindmeditation3377]

Who is watching this before writing a math test

[@Lia_03x]

We are watching good will hunting in english class now, I love the movie, is so much more than just math.

[@mosurovic87]

math. is so much more than we thinking

[@gulumsgr6576]

Math is fair lesson.It studies all the facts and gets a result.l want to say that numbers never lie.That's why math is my best friend.

[@missing11eleven40]

My thoughts's exactly

[@anonymous0374]

Me too

[@batmangamewalkthroughs7188]

The Imitation Game should be on here

[@aakarsrivastava9736]

The Imitation Game. Alan Turing.

[@allybally0021]

Yes! Great film and Turing was a legend in maths and was able to take complex abstract ideas and create actual real world solutions....even by creating new technoligy to get there.

[@sohansen3575]

He was a gay 😂😂😂😁😀😁😶....no offence ...just trying to bring humor ....sorry if I was rude

[@allybally0021]

@@sohansen3575 A gay? I thought he was good at maths. Clearly not. I hope no-one finds out. Keep that to yourself.

[@u.v.s.5583]

@@allybally0021 True story. He was pursued because of that and ended up with a successful suicide. Very sad. The man was a genius. To me one of his best works was the math biology paper on the chemical origins of morphogenesis. What a beast!

[@mmh-u-zings]

❣️one of my fav movies eva; i used to fall asleep listening to it, because he became my Sapio-crush after Einstein, & watching/falling asleep listening to Einstein documentaries; & it's a travesty that Alan Turing isn't a household name because the post-modern day era we live in is mostly composed of the fundamental concept behind "Turing Machines" - a.k.a. "computers" ~

[@etxsports5836]

Another math scene "the day the earth stood still" with Keanu Reeves

[@carl_elfsj4693]

Yes!

[@newmiracle6365]

I love math, especially when i'm calculating my profits..

[@ElChicoDiablo]

"whats your name?" "Ben..Ben Campbell" "Well Ben , come to me after hours for some extra credits , what door do you pick Ben , door no1 or door no2 ? "

[@AmmarSuper001]

Underrated comment LOL

[@ahsannazar6652]

Gave me a good laugh, lol

[@-yourandyoureare2different612]

Good Will Hunting The Man Who Knew Infinity 21 A Beautiful Mind

[@colinjava8447]

The newton raphson method is a doddle to derive. Inventing the technique is where the genius comes in. I never knew raphson did it first, very interesting.

[@suzimanipur2983]

Dedication, sweating, crying & then recognition 🙏🙏👏👏

[@carni3665]

I'm a Mathematican and I love Marvel more than this.

[@starinsky2873]

Fake mathematician

[@danielengelo8419]

@@starinsky2873 you right cause he misspell his job

[@Mathelite-ii4hd]

Are you sure about that SharpTech?

[@ozymandias6817]

You should probably attend some English classes sir

[@r0xx0r31]

LOL

[@abhisekmukherjee1811]

The car goat game is called the Monty Hall problem. It is a much analysed problem in discrete probability and when the problem came out first, many including the legendary Erdos himself refused to believe that the chance increased to 2/3 by switching. Many doctorates in mathematics criticized the magazine for a "erranous" solution. They all believed that the chance was a mere 50-50, so switch or not, chances remain the same. For Erdos, he only came to trust the solution after a computer simulation proved the correctness. Interesting problem to talk on especially when it's Kevin Spacey who is discussing it. A pity he turned out to be a slave of his lust. I really liked him. :(

[@GizmoMaltese]

It sucks the way it's presented here. A teacher would most likely ask the entire class and let a little debate start. Most people would get it wrong. Then maybe some brilliant kid would give the right answer.

[@u.v.s.5583]

It is very counterintuitive. I had hard times to grasp it. Now that I know the solution it seems stupid easy.

[@jeomaiduldulao6655]

How did linear equation lecture became about feelings and a gameshow?

[@nathandaniel5451]

nonlinear equations* Newton's method would be quite redundant on linear equations, still good point. :P

[@federicodellimmagine3676]

Because the movie is about blackjack. The teacher was testing what kind of player he would be.

[@nathandaniel5451]

@@federicodellimmagine3676 Hush, that is a good point. I have seen it, it's an alright movie.

[@maxschroeter179]

Do you know about the Monty-Hall-Dilemma. The Scene was basically about it and the equations had nothing to do with it. It‘s pretty easy probability calculation but the movie made it look impressive.

[@tsdobbi]

@@federicodellimmagine3676 The thing is black jack isnt comparable to the example here. It's about betting high when you have increased odds of winning and betting low when your odds of winning are decreased. That is literally the point of card counting in blackjack. The fact is, whether he changed his choice or not after one door was revealed, his odds were the same whether he stayed with his original choice or switched.

[@dewebbutler2829]

I love watching these clips, I get so pumped to go to school on Monday and create some mind-blowing breakthrough to wow my professors and to cement myself in history books forever. Except my professor says "Jarmo, this is a drawing of a stick figure with the words 'Jarmo's theory of stick figures' written under it. And this isn't a school, it's a factory, and i'm not a professor i'm your boss and you're 15 minutes late and your fired."

[@zakiahmed6655]

life is like that i wish one person would be at least ground breaking (in the comments)

[@dewebbutler2829]

@@zakiahmed6655 True words, I think my stick figure isn't making the cut though

[@houdinitj37]

Watching this knowing I fail maths exams every time ;).

[@DD27_27]

The man who knew infinity was amazing too

[@kimjoonna4364]

How about “The Imitation Game”? It’s about A mathematician who broke Enigma (The German Code)

[@salmonbhoi2681]

It's Alan Turing

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

Turning didn't break Enigma though.

[@LindsayKay]

Had a mathematics lecturer who, in his first lecture of the semester, offered the class this little gem: "They have a saying in the Special Air Service: Look to the man to your left and the man to your right; by the end of this course, one of those two men will be dead". He was complete nutter, just like *almost* every math teacher I ever had.

[@kensmith8152]

With me it never seemed to add up, it divided my family, multiplied my problems exponentially and only provided a small fraction of satisfaction.

[@alaynac1610]

I remember Good Will Hunting. Although I don’t like math, it was an amazing movie.

[@goodservant8493]

Well, The professor in Good Will Hunting opened the portal of Asgard. real genius

[@yashsanjaykarogal9253]

The man who knew infinity best film really inspires me

[@Gh0stRider]

Gifted may have come out after you made this list. Love the scene where she goes back and solves the problem. Fermat's Last Theorem is also good.

[@July...]

Yea I love the movie!

[@dellasx]

"A Beautiful Mind" is a great movie! It has math but more on theories.

[@gamingboy3858]

oh!! Ramanujon we all respect you.you are great👌

[@SwiftlyEditing]

I think Hidden Figures should be on here

[@walidarduino5088]

i love you

[@phoenixjb3]

SwiftEdits agreed

[@gdwilliam2841]

Dick figures (͡ °͜ ʖ͡ °)

[@noneofyourbusiness3341]

SwiftEdits YES!!

[@mathematix-rodcast]

This posting pre-dates Hidden Figures, but you are absolutely right!

[@mathpanther]

When you understand something in mathematics, you are feeling as a king, why this feeling?

[@AnkitRaj-jn8ew]

For those who did not understand why he swapped the door in the movie 21 let me explain, each door has 33.3% of chance in the beginning so door 1 has 33.3% and door 2 + door 3 has 66.6% of chance. Since door 3 was revealed and it does not have the car, the 66.6% altogether goes to door 2 and hence has more chances of having the car.

[@Eduardo1Garcia]

I'm an idiot so please take that into account but I don't agree. Once one door is opened and he is asked to pick again he shouldn't switch because it doesn't matter, there is a 50/50 chance he will be right with whatever he chooses. How can you transfer probability from door 3 to door 2? Why doesn't it transfer to door #1? Once door 3 is opened it is removed from being a possibility and now you only have 2 doors at a 50/50 split.

[@danielhollifield5553]

Movie 21: I'm not sure how Newton's Method relates to statistical probability...but I am an idiot on my good days.

[@Amuserr]

Ikr but they may want to relate non linear eqn can be represented by variable change.

[@udaibir1]

Newtons method is not related to statistical probabilty. The question asked by the professor was based on statistical probality.

[@SuperChuckRaney]

He has a hidden purpose in throwing the Game Show Host problem in with the other lessons ...he needs math nerds for his Black Jack card-counting team.,

[@cipherraigex579]

These types of movies makes me feel smart

[@mdalaminkazimoi7192]

what's the name of this movie?

[@muhammadihsanfikri6863]

U just feel it, not on reality xD

[@bhoyamaulik4529]

Movie name : The man who knew infinity

[@nathanaelmccooeye3204]

How to write a math movie: *impressive but simple problem I learned on KZbin* *I am a humble underdog and a genius* *Omg this kid is a genius and will change the world*

[@jimkelley5812]

Re: "The Game Show" it might be clearer to think of it as the host offering to trade the 2 doors not chosen for the 1 door that was. Opening one of the two unselected doors does not change the fact that there was a 67% chance that the winning door was one of these 2. Just think of it as having 100 doors, with only one prize. You only have a 1% chance of selecting the right door. Now the host opens 98 doors, leaving only 1 door plus the door you picked. Would you then switch if you could? Of course!

[@williambarrantes1674]

Jim Kelley why would you then switch? The 2 doors that are left have just as much probability of being right. If 98 doors are removed, then you now have a 50% chance of getting it right. I don’t understand why you have to switch in order to increase your chances, the moment other options are taken away your chances increase no matter if you stay or switch. And honestly, the game show host probably was trying to trick you into switching, so if you switch you get screwed with the goat.

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Selveig, Jason Bourne, Jamal, Hydra's scientist... and a reference to cheating gameshow hosts, what a treat 😯

[@TheTruthSeeker235]

I graduated as an engineer back in 2010 but I remember in my Cal 2 course most of the students struggled with double integrals, squences and series except me and another guy in the class. Needless to say only him and I passed Cal 2 everyone else failed. True story.

[@owaisbinkhaliddar6000]

Great story, Who was the bad teacher

[@MSjackiesaunders]

The question is, how badly did you flunk English? I was a technical writer in the computer industry for over 35 years because engineers and programmers cannot structure a sentence properly. My first boss told me that he could teach a decent writer enough of the "tech stuff" to write user manuals and other essential documents, while he couldn't teach the tech folks to write a decent sentence because they didn't think it was important. Both sides of the equation are important. The difference is, I recognized that. Too bad most of the commenters do not. Proper punctuation and good grammar are essential to clear and concise communication.

[@arunimakumar3702]

Sir you missed the movie "X+Y"

[@raghuchaudhary606]

My only inspiration sir ramanujan . Always I try something new and make my tricks for solving a problem.

[@ashwintkaur1374]

Do mathematicians know that *mitochondria is the power house of the cell*

[@kaushalendrarajput6230]

Fuck no

[@witsqafa]

Yep. We learnt it when we were in high school.

[@kertiangeneralao2421]

You dont need to become a mathematecians to know that sir. It's a basic knowledge that has been taught to us in Gradeschool.

[@kenzanadjoui69]

Of course we do

[@EverBlossomingBliss]

Yesssss nobody is that stupid

[@sibashankarjena8426]

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY

[@malgepranay333]

The man who knew infinity I'm proud to be Indian

[@hishamseddiqee9528]

Malge Pranay, your countrymen making contribution doesn't mean you made it

[@malgepranay333]

@@hishamseddiqee9528 I know that I'm proud of that a I born in a country that has great history and legendary heroes of science and technology

[@dscmtr686]

@@malgepranay333 well, can't we say that about almost any country?

[@malgepranay333]

@@dscmtr686 sorry I can't understand what u saying I mean what's ur point

[@dude988]

@@malgepranay333 that you should achieve something that you can be proud of. Not just taking the fact that you were born in a country with one good scientist.

[@jasonl7937]

Except they are missing "Stand and Deliver"

[@info781]

The Man Who knew Infinity - should have been made by Bollywood. The film that criticizes the British was made by the British. Otherwise a good movie about a great mathematician.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

But then it would be in Hindi, and captions don't catch the nuances of math very well. Besides, they would interrupt with music and dancing.

[@SatyamKumar-yk4sz]

I love maths and I have no words to explain my feelings about maths

[@halneufmille]

The third movie was weird, they're talking about numerical optimization and Newton's method and then Kevin Spacey switches to probabilities, an entirely different topic.

[@keshav1321]

But plz explain me why door no. 2 ... I mean he still has a chance of 66.7% on door no. 1 .... Plz help

[@halneufmille]

@@keshav1321 Sure, it's not intuitive. Best way to think about it is to imagine that there are 100 doors. You pick one, which has a 1% chance of having the new car. Then the game-show host opens all the other closed doors (which have goats), except door number 63. Door 63 sure looks suspicious. In the event you were right initially (1% chance), you should stick with your initial guess. But in the event you were wrong (99% chance), then the new car has to be behind door 63, the only other door still closed.

[@kacee3472]

How is this list missing The Imitation Game? Even if you say it's a bit more about early digital computing than mathematics, Alan Turing was a mathematician and computer science and mathematics are so beautifully intertwined anyways. I seldom get emotional over movies but The Imitation Game is was so touching, I cried watching it towards the end, and I almost never cry watching movies.

[@markmarsh27]

EXCELLENT point Kacee!

[@gargrishab]

We don't talk anymore mathematics but you are still a part of life

[@kidcudireality9089]

i feel like a genius just watching this

[@srinivasan4369]

I to want to become a mathematician.I love this video.

[@jamorals6328]

*Last clip playing peacefully* *WE DONT TALK ANYMORE*

[@mgv8rover843]

I miss the " Imitation game" film on this list👍👍👍

[@alwaysuseless]

All the "new students" at Princeton in the last film look like they're 30-40 years old.

[@stephenbutler4399]

It's cuz that's how long it takes to get to that level of mathematical understanding 😂 hahaha not really, but close... I'm a student studying at a community college for an ast in engineering to take to a 4 university, to get the ast, the "2 year" college stay is actually 4-5 years, just to fulfill the math requirement 😅 haha and the kicker? Those math courses are pretty much just introductory level stuff, at the University I'd be looking at another 2-3 for my undergrad, and another 6 for my doctorate, if I aim for one lol. But I started college at 24, so add on 4 to that, I'll be 28ish before I even start at the University 😅

[@alwaysuseless]

Hi Stephen. I know you're partly joking, but your numbers look inflated. I wouldn't presume to speak to your situation, but for students who are going straight for a Ph.D. in math-the scenario relevant to the scene we're watching-it's 4 years for the B.S. and another 4 years for the Ph.D. New Ph.D. 's in math are typically in their mid-to-late-twenties.

[@stephenbutler4399]

@@alwaysuseless haha I was honestly just basing my numbers off what was given to me by an advisor that came from a university that started at our school, he's currently pursuing a PhD and the numbers I gave were kind of taking the time he expects and molding it to my own, lol since I won't even start a university till I'm around 28, and won't begin a pursuit into a PhD until 3 or 4 years after that, since I'd be getting my undergrad first and kind of go from there as to whether I want the grad or not, similar to his own lol, but yea in general my numbers are kind of inflated, mainly because of the scheduling the classes at my current school have, they're not very streamlined... I'm aiming for an ast of mechanical engineering, but the courses I need (other than math) follow a sequence and are only offered one quarter a year, they also require a certain level of math to take, so if you don't have that level yet, you can only wait a year, I basically started my math sequence one quarter too late and so have to spend the next year on the electrical engineering track before returning to mechanical, which kind of "wastes" a year (was wanting to take the electrical classes too tbh, but concurrently with my mechanical)

[@eyesofphysics97]

@@stephenbutler4399 I realize this is going to sound fake, but I am actually a first year graduate student at Princeton's department of physics and am pursuing a PhD right now! This is me: phy.princeton.edu/people/suren-gourapura I'd like to say that it certainly does not take 30-40 years to start the first year in physics here. I started immediately after undergrad at Ohio State University, which I finished in a standard 4 years. International students tend to earn a masters in Physics before attending here, which increases their age by 2-3 years, but still right around 25-26 at the latest. I presume our mind is most ripe for learning right around the 20s, so starting after 30 is perhaps a disadvantage. Also, you might have a family by then, which may not leave enough time for research. Perhaps it was around the 30s back then though?

[@merlinderzauberer5612]

Imitation Game is a very nice mathematican film, too

[@steve_dailygamer1748]

YOU SCARED ME AT THE END!!!

[@resistance7538]

Third movie scene: The monty hall problem

[@krishanlal9790]

Math is like poetry but the only difference is that a poet tries to get hi mind into heaven but a mathematician tries to get heaven into his mind. Love maths

[@gedlangosz1127]

Why is Kevin Spacey asking Ben to solve a conditional probability question in the middle of a non linear mathematics course?

[@waghprasad]

How could you seriously forget The Imitation Game ?

[@countacymathematics]

GREAT Movies.... I watched 5 of them consecutively

[@DwadeFL4SHMV3]

Man who knew infinity. Such an underrated movie with an even more underrated actor.