The New Math(s)

Name: The New Math(s)
Genre: Short
Released: 2007-07-26
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 5
Cast: D.J. Mendel, David Neumann, Miho Nikaido

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Two students and their teacher seem to be literally fighting over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about ... Read allTwo students and their teacher seem to be literally fighting over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secret urges?Two students and their teacher seem to be literally fighting over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secret urges?

Director
- Hal Hartley
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IMDb RATING

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Director
- Hal Hartley
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D.J. Mendel

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David Neumann

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Miho Nikaido

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8/10

Slapstick math

Of all of Hal Hartley's short films I know, this one is the is the funniest. A professor and his two students (male and female) seem to be at odds about the result of a long calculation written on a chalkboard and on a mirror with lipstick. They express their disagreement in rather forceful ways, not commonly practiced by mathematicians.

The formulas, intentionally or not, contain some strange terms, such a summation with lower limit infinity + 1 and upper limit infinity, or another summation sign with the same lower and upper limits.

Eerie music by Dutch composers Louis Andriessen and Michael Van der Aa.