Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv by Yitang Zhang

Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by vlovich123 on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:24PM (#33515572)

Einstein is probably a terrible example here because in his day he was regarded as a pop culture icon so there’s plenty about him in film [1]. That’s not even considering that he’s had plenty of excellent biographies written about him. Agora with Rachel Weisz is an excellent one about Hypatia.

Could we do better as a society? Maybe. To do that though you’d have to bring these stories into film classrooms and get students inspired. But first you have to make the stories inspiring and a lot of them aren’t thaaat much except for the advancements they provided to the field and that’s harder to convey. Maybe Leibniz and Newton would be a good rivalry on the screen.

[1] https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/8689-albert-einstein/movi...

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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:44PM (#33524056)

To my knowledge there’s only one dramatization of his biography which is this:

https://www.dogomovies.com/einstein-and-eddington/movie-revi...

My point is even einstein doesn’t get the same treatment as, say, a politician or actor gets as far as coverage. There’s more out there about Elvis than Newton.

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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:00PM (#33524226)

Newton as a human being was insanely interesting. Einstein as well. I would pick Hooke and Newtons relationship before Leibniz, fwiw.

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