Patnaik, Rajkishore
(2013)
Numberphile.
At Right Angles, 2 (1).
p. 64.
Abstract
In Darren Aronofsky-directed 1998 surrealist psychological thriller Pi, the leading character
Maximillian Cohen mutters to himself: “Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language
of nature. Two, everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore,
there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics; the waxing and waning of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile.
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