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Does anyone else want to see a movie on Galois?


Nash, Turing, Hawking, Ramanujan. Galois seems more interesting and tragic.

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I've wanted to see a good adaption of Galois's life since forever! I suppose his life is as interesting as the dynamics between Ramanujan and Hardy, not more though. (There's also Abel, similar theme "the best dies young")

On the other hand, if they want a big budget action adventure comedy they can make a movie about Gauss. I bet that would be a movie that I (and hopefully a lot of people) would enjoy. They could take a dual protagonists approach following the paths of Alexander von Humboldt and Gauss, one man is chaste and devoted to unifying physical science and Kantian philosophy, he goes on long voyage to edge of the world, exploring new continents, making discovery about geography, ecology and social sciences..., while the other is a whoremonger, never sets foot outside of his home town for the most part of his life, and can't ride to the capital without complaining about everything throughout the journey, he's also the Prince of Mathematics.
I would love to see Hollywood's take on Gauss's teenage years whoring and revolutionizing number theory and geometry, moments like when he overheard a discussion of some physicists and realized something but didn't say anything instead he was like "eh, that was obvious, i'm sure they would find out soon" - soon means many decades later . There's also a part where he created an ingenious method to compute trajectory of an asteroid that no one could because of ridiculously insufficient data, his method:
1. Requires only three Earth-based measurements.
2. One of the first demonstrations of the method of least squares.
3. Developed Fast Fourier Transform to quickly interpolate periodic functions.
... before Fourier even made the assertion that (many nice classes of) functions could be expressed as a series of sines and cosines, Gauss had figured this out while having sex with his fiancee (actually I'm not sure if that was his fiancee or a prostitute, or his gf).

Don't quote me on anything that isn't mathematics though, I read about Gauss when I was 15 (Die Vermessung der Welt by Daniel Kehlmann), however, it is very possible that historians "know" all this, the man's ego is about as big as the city he lived in so don't be surprised this is all written in his diary (the content in one afternoon of which could've covered another man's mathematics career - that's how intimidating he is).



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Uh... are you talking about this movie here?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571401/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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No.

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Thanks for the elaborate reply. Still that movie is rather close to what you describe, is it not?

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Yeah I'd love to for sure.

Infact I would seek a film about just about any great scientist, mathematician etc but you are right he would make fr a really fascinating film.

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Sorry to necropost, but YES, I'd like to see that.

Problem is I'm not sure how much of Galois' life we know for sure (apart from the duel etc).

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Yeah, would love a movie about Everiste Galois and also Paul Erdős...

Every man has two nations, one of them is France. (B. Franklin)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125425/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Thank you Holtor. I did see "N is a Number" years ago and I didn't like it too much. It was more of a documentary, if I remember correctly.

Every man has two nations, one of them is France. (B. Franklin)

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That is true, and also it was not very good.

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Yesss. I do. Today I was watching this movie about Ramanujan and thought of Galois. He died in his twenties.

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