Undergraduate Mathematics is the worst movie ever told.

by BinRoo • 12 years ago

3 1 12 years ago

dalke• 12 years ago

Is that satire? I can't tell, but I don't think it's meant to be that.

There's no justification for the assertion that "A good theorem should read like a good novel." Why can't it read like a good travelogue or biography ... or ballad, for that matter?

Then again, I can't watch Hitchcock films - I can't stand contrived suspense.

For what it's worth, one of the rank top detective series in the US is/was Columbo. Quoting from Wikipedia:

Almost every episode begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the series therefore has no "whodunit" element. The plot revolves mainly around how the perpetrator, whose identity is already known to the audience, will finally be caught and exposed.

So it seems that the suspense could be in figuring out how the details go together, and don't require keeping the end-goals hidden.

Undergraduate Mathematics is the worst movie ever told.

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