The reality is that there are no "singular geniuses" who waltz into universities and solve open problems the top professors there spend decades working on. The movie was toxic, unrealistic and a joke. Just contributes to a dumb genius culture.
Good Will Hunting ruined the public's perception of mathematicians
Good Will Hunting is not about mathematicians, it is about people doing combinatorics.
Why are people trying to nuke a bad joke. What's even the point of this website if we can't make fun of each other on the basis of the things we work on?
because many people are cognitively unable to take a joke
just boring people with no sense of humor.
Good Will Hunting is not about mathematicians, it is about people doing combinatorics.
Why are people trying to nuke a bad joke. What's even the point of this website if we can't make fun of each other on the basis of the things we work on?
do what? A movie about a guy making subway sandwiches who spends his free time doing number theory? sure sounds like a real hit!
maybe not janitors but there are Subway workers
So we all know why Hollywood won’t make this into a movie, but why hasn’t an actual artist somewhere in, say, China done this?
maybe not janitors but there are Subway workers
So we all know why Hollywood won’t make this into a movie, but why hasn’t an actual artist somewhere in, say, China done this?
There are lots of movies on Ramanujan (of varying production quality). Even the most famous one did not achieve any groundbreaking profits.
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So we all know why Hollywood won’t make this into a movie, but why hasn’t an actual artist somewhere in, say, China done this?
There are lots of movies on Ramanujan (of varying production quality). Even the most famous one did not achieve any groundbreaking profits.
The most hilarious part of the famous one was the anachronistic portrayal of Bertrand Russel as a kindly modern day liberal. In fact, his views on (for example) race and nuclear war were rather too complex for him to have survived modern academia.
The most hilarious part of the famous one was the anachronistic portrayal of Bertrand Russel as a kindly modern day liberal. In fact, his views on (for example) race and nuclear war were rather too complex for him to have survived modern academia.
Wikipedia equivocates about the views on race, saying his ideas changed over time, but citing only the later opinions. But there is no link to his earlier statements. What were his positions on the matter? There are lots of political questions where late-Russell and early-Russell said opposite things.
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