There's an ongoing bit concerning prime numbers, specifically the twin primes conjecture. Have to admit that there's much more than the usual amount of math mentioned in the lecture scenes: Bridges mentions implicitĭifferentiation - ``pretend y is a function of x'' - and the chain rule, and there's lots of cool looking writing on the board including Nobody's going to see it, much less be influenced by its ``math is boring and irrelevant and taught by incompetents'' subtext. Fortunately, this is a godawful movie all the way around and Then Bridges talks aboutīaseball in class and suddenly can relate to the students better. We're asked along the way toīelieve that Bridges doesn't know what a batting average is Barbara explains it to him (incorrectly). Incredibly popular English teacher despite her rambling lecture style and gives him a few pointers. Presence who bores his students silly by lecturing to the board and sticking to his subject (calculus). " Bridges plays a math professor with zero stage Primes which differ by two) as well as Streisand's opinion ofīridges' calculus teaching. We get a detailedĭescription of the Twin Prime Conjecture (concerning the number of Professors (respectively) at Columbia University in which they try (unsuccessfully) to achieve a marriage of deep companionship but completely free of sex and physical intimacy. Love story with Jeff Bridges and Barbra Streisand as math and English A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)īarbra Streisand (director) / Richard LaGravenese (Writer)
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