I'm enjoying the Apple TV+ thriller "Prime Target”, about a mathematical genius who is apparently on the verge of some breakthrough about prime numbers and somebody wants to take him down because he's going to break all known crypto or something - and it's kind of silly and fun, but it make me wonder:
Hollywood should make a biopic about legendary, and extremely quirky, mathematician Paul Erdös. That'd be fun.
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Erdös got an honourary degree from Waterloo and spoke at my graduation. I remember how he started .... “I flew from Hungary, to the USA, to Waterloo, and after this I'm going to California, then Japan, then back to Hungary ... so I'm going 360 degrees around the world to get one degree.
361 degrees.
Now that's an interesting number. 361 is 19 squared. I remember when I was 19, and …”
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