November 21, 2008
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Mathematics and Literature--
Gatsby Starts Over:
Cleaning Up the
St. Olaf MessSt. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota --
From The MSCS Mess
(Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science)
November 14, 2008
Volume 37, Number 9--
Math Film Festival 2008
The MSCS Department is sponsoring the second of two film-discussion evenings this Wednesday, November 19. Come to RNS 390 at 7:00 PM to see watch [sic] two short [sic]-- Whatchu Know 'bout Math and Just a Finite Simple Group of Order Two-- and our feature film, Good Will Hunting. Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who's living a rough life in South Boston, while being employed at a prestigious college in Boston, he's [sic] discovered by a Fields Medal winning mathematics Professor [sic] who eventually tries to get Will to turn his life around but becomes haunted by his own professional inadequacies when compared with Will. Professor Garrett will explain the “impossible problem” and its solution after the film.Background:
Log24 entries of Wednesday, November 19, the day "Good Will Hunting" was shown:
Damnation Morning revisited and
Mathematics and Narrative continuedFrom a story in the November 21
Chronicle of Higher Education
on a recent St. Olaf College
reading of Paradise Lost:"Of man's first disobedience,
and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree,
whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World,
and all our woe....A red apple made the rounds,
each reader tempting the next."________________________"Do you like apples?"
-- Good Will Hunting
