Maths at the Movies: Good Will Hunting
Feb 05, 2019
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Episode description
Last week we did A Beautiful Mind and now Good Will Hunting. We are really hitting all the well-known maths films at the moment aren't we?
More importantly joining us this week we have the wonderful
Dr James Grime Philanthropist, playboy, billionaire... he is none of this things, but he may have identified the real Will Hunting!
This week we touch on such subjects as:
If you're interested in watching Good Will Hunting you can follow the Amazon link below.
Further reading links:
Subscribe via iTunes.
Follow us on twitter @PodcastMathsAt, as well as @ThomasEWoolley and @benmparker.
More importantly joining us this week we have the wonderful
Dr James Grime Philanthropist, playboy, billionaire... he is none of this things, but he may have identified the real Will Hunting!
This week we touch on such subjects as:
- Is University a scam?
- Good Will Hunting needs a prequel!
- Will James and Liz ever write a paper about the maths of Dirty Dancing?
If you're interested in watching Good Will Hunting you can follow the Amazon link below.
Further reading links:
- What is the Hadwiger-Nelson problem and who is Aubrey de Grey?
- We also mention the fields of Combinatorics, Graph theory and Fourier theory.
Subscribe via iTunes.
Follow us on twitter @PodcastMathsAt, as well as @ThomasEWoolley and @benmparker.
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