There's a website and a companion book to it about bad physics in movies, called "Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics".

Similar issues may exist about mathematics: What are the differences between movie mathematics an real mathematics? What are the misconceptions about the nature of mathematics and mathematicians which may be conveyed to the audience via movies? And so on.

Is there any website, article or book dealing with such issues about mathematics and movies?

Thanks.

• Well, finding all homeomorphically irreducible trees of size $10$ certainly wouldn't take an MIT professor 2 years to do... – Julien Godawatta Jan 6 '14 at 18:40
• Julien refers to good will hunting. – davidlowryduda Jan 6 '14 at 18:43
• I remember a particularly painful line in "cube" where everybody is amazed that the autist prodigy can tell that 258 is not prime in 3 seconds.... – Glougloubarbaki Jan 6 '14 at 18:43
• @Behzad: Lets just say you have a lot of material to work with! See: math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies and qedcat.com/moviemath – Amzoti Jan 6 '14 at 18:44
• @Glougloubarbaki. Yeah, that's really ridiculous: I can't imagine anyone needing more than 2 seconds to see that 258 is not prime, since it is divisible by 43. – Georges Elencwajg Jan 6 '14 at 20:58

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