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Proof |
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Another caricature
of the mad mathematician. The play focus’s
on a proof of one of the great unsolved problems
about prime numbers. Hal the graduate student
finds the proof amongst the mad professor’s
papers: It looks like it proves a theorem…a
mathematical theorem about prime numbers,
something mathematicians have been trying
to prove since…since there were mathematicians
basically. Most people thought it couldn’t
be done”. But whose proof is it really…The
play contains some mathematical jokes like
the mathematician’s band whose favourite
number is i, the imaginary number –
three minutes of silence.
(photo: © 1997-2003 Barnesandnoble.com
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Arcadia |
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Tom Stoppard’s
play which uses the development of chaos theory
as a metaphor for the clash between classicism
and romanticism, especially with relation
to landscape gardening.
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