MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Stand-In (1937)
Tay Garnett
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Leslie Howard plays a typical Hollywood mathematical genius: emotionless, conceited, and convinced that everything can be understood through mathematics. (Well, one out of three isn't bad!) It takes a trip to Tinsel Town and a beautiful actress to make him see the errors of his ways.

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Works Similar to Stand-In
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
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  2. She Wrote the Book by Oscar Brodney (writer) / Warren Wilson (writer) / Charles Lamont (director)
  3. Tracking the Random Variable by Marcos Donnelly
  4. The Geometrics of Johnny Day by Nelson Bond
  5. What Are the Odds? by Justin Spitzer (writer) / Matthew Tritt (director)
  6. The Chair of Philanthromathematics by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
  7. Coconuts by Ben Ames Williams
  8. Professor Morgan's Moon by Stanley Waterloo
  9. The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, B.A. by Humphry Francis Ellis
  10. Problems for Self-Study by Charles Yu
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Categories:
GenreHumorous,
MotifAnti-social Mathematicians, Math as Cold/Dry/Useless, Romance,
TopicMathematical Finance,
MediumFilms,

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