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The book’s structure moves from early discussions of consulting and classroom action into chapters that explore specific topics such as graph theory, eigenvalues, prime numbers, pi, and the golden ratio. It also includes puzzle-style problem sections, annotated “files,” and curated lists, reinforcing learning through playful analysis and references.","Math Goes to the Movies  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMATH GOES TO THE MOVIES  \nBurkard Polster  \nMarty Ross  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n© 2012 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2012  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nThe Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363  \n[www.press.jhu.edu](www.press.jhu.edu)  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2011943465  \nISBN 13: 978-1-4214-0483-7 (hc)  \nISBN 10: 1-4214-0483-4 (hc)  \nISBN 13: 978-1-4214-0484-4 (pbk)  \nISBN 10: 1-4214-0484-2 (pbk)  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nSpecial discounts are available for bulk purchases ofthis book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or [specialsales@press.jhu.edu](specialsales@press.jhu.edu).  \nThe Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nPreface  \nPart I Movies  \n1 Good Math Hunting  \n1.1 How to Become a Math Consultant  \n1.2 Actors Versus Blackboards  \n1.3 Lambeau, the Fields Medalist  \n1.4 A Professor Turns Actor  \n1.5 Mathematics: “Perceval”  \n1.6 Students in Action  \n1.7 Mathematics: Graph Theory 1  \n1.8 Mathematics: Eigenvalues  \n1.9 Mathematics: Graph Theory 2  \n1.10 Mathematics: Graph Theory 3  \n1.11 Mathematics: The Salieri Scene  \n1.12 Further References and Remarks  \n1.13 Parodies  \n2 The Clever Hand Behind A Beautiful Mind  \n2.1 Real Math Beats Fake Math  \n2.2 Signature Scene  \n2.3 The Riemann Hypothesis  \n2.4 The Blonde and the Nobel Prize  \n2.5 Hand Double  \n2.6 Bits and Pieces  \n3 Escalante Stands and Delivers  \n3.1 Welcome to the Finger Man  \n3.2 Filling the Hole  \n3.3 Let X Be the Number of Girlfriends  \n3.4 Newton Was an Idiot  \n3.5 The Students Stand and Deliver, Again  \n3.6 Will the Real Jaime Escalante Please Stand Up?  \n4 The Annotated Pi Files  \n4.1 Max the Mathematician  \n4.2 Mathematics Is the Language of Nature  \n4.3 Pattern in Pi  \n4.4 Numerology: Father + Mother = Child  \n4.5 The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio  \n4.6 Archimedes the Goldfish  \n4.7 Coincidence, or Is It?  \n4.8 Back to the Golden Ratio  \n4.9 Staring into the Sun  \n4.10 The Name of God  \n4.11 Living Happily Ever After  \n5 Nitpicking in Mathmagic Land  \n5.1 Tiny Nitpick: What Is Pi?  \n5.2 Historical Nitpick: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans  \n5.3 Small Nitpick: Pythagorean Music  \n5.4 Medium Nitpick: The Golden Section  \n5.5 Large Nitpick: Three-Cushion Billiards  \n5.6 NOTpick  \n5.7 Notes  \n6 Escape from the Cube  \n6.1 The Cube in Cube  \n6.2 First Insight: The Power of Primes  \n6.3 How to Avoid Prime Numbers  \n6.4 Second Insight: The Cube in Coordinates  \n6.5 Third Insight: Permutations  \n6.6 Final Insight: Prime Powers  \n6.7 Other Cubes  \n7 The Incredible Shrinking Room  \n7.1 How Good a PuzzlerAre You?  \n7.2 Answers to the Puzzles  \n7.3 Notes  \n8 Murder in the Hot House  \n8.1 The Story  \n8.2 Let’s Kill Some Mathematicians  \n8.3 The Writing on the Wall  \n8.4 Let’s Run Away and Join the Circus  \n9 A Word Problem for Die Hards  \n9.1 Playing Billiards with the Die Hard Problem  \n9.2 A Recipe  \n9.3 Thwarting a Different Simon  \n9.4 The Least Common Multiple  \n9.5 References  \n10 7 × 13 = 28  \n10.1 First Proof: Bogus Division  \n10.2 Second Proof: Bogus Multiplication  \n10.3 Third Proof: Bogus Addition  \n10.4 Play it Again, Abbott  \n10.5 General Bogus Math  \n11 One Mirror Has Two Faces, Two Mirrors Have…  \n11.1 Real Life  \n11.2 Prime Numbers  \n11.3 Calculus  \n11.4 Mathematical Miscellany  \n11.5 The Other Mirror  \n11.6 Notes  \n12 It’s My Turn for Some Serious Mathematics  \n12.1 The Snake Rears Its Lovely Head  \n12.2 The Classification of Finite Simple Groups  \n12.3 Questions and Answers  \n12.4 Notes  \nPart II Mathematics  \n13 Beautiful Math, or Better Off Dead  \n1","cbCaiuUXr0j81AON","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuUXr0j81AON","pdf",16995604,1,445,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# Part I Movies\n## Good Math Hunting\n## The Clever Hand Behind A Beautiful Mind\n## Escalante Stands and Delivers\n## The Annotated Pi Files\n## Nitpicking in Mathmagic Land\n## Escape from the Cube\n## The Incredible Shrinking Room\n## Murder in the Hot House\n## A Word Problem for Die Hards\n## 7 × 13 = 28\n## One Mirror Has Two Faces, Two Mirrors Have…\n## It’s My Turn for Some Serious Mathematics\n# Part II Mathematics\n## Beautiful Math, or Better Off Dead\n## Pythagoras and Fermat at the Movies\n## Survival in the Fourth Dimension\n## 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