Contributed by
Aidan Tompkins
This short film is based on a short story by Lev Grossman is a repeat-the-same-day romcom that uses 2D projections of a tesseract as a plot point! I liked it even if it’s a little handwavy, and math also comes up as a conversation topic for the nerdy characters, with a subplot of learning algebra while they’re stuck in the loop. As a high-school geek, I really enjoyed the romance sprinkled with numbers, and it was wholesome enough for everyone else to enjoy it too! I’d rate the math content at a 2/5 and quality as 4/5.
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(quoted from The Map of Tiny Perfect Things)
So the first thing that you need to know about math is that it's always perfect.
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Presumably the short story also has math in it. At this point, I haven't seen the movie or read the story. If you know, please write me. Contributed by
Curtis Carney
I felt that the movie (have not read the book) was mathematical in many ways; in addition to math content and ideas peppered throughout the story, it was mathematical reasoning that enabled the characters to overcome their situation.
Also, it was refreshing that the female lead was the stronger mathematician.
I especially like that she called out the glib aphorism that "time is the 4th dimension" (l strongly agree) but then she used it as the 3rd dimension for her map (solving the tesseract).
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