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:
  1. Slightly Perfect / Are you with it? by George Malcolm-Smith (Novel) / Sam Perrin (Script) / George Balzer (Script)
  2. She Wrote the Book by Oscar Brodney (writer) / Warren Wilson (writer) / Charles Lamont (director)
  3. Erasmus with Freckles [aka Dear Brigitte] by John Haase
  4. The Helpline by Katherine Collette
  5. The Mirror Has Two Faces by Barbra Streisand (director) / Richard LaGravenese (Writer)
  6. A Matter of Geometry by Ared White
  7. The Triangular House [La Casa Triangular] by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
  8. Kazohinia [A Voyage to Kazohinia] by Sándor Szathmári
  9. Porter Piper by Anonymous
  10. Scandal in the Fourth Dimension by Amelia Reynolds Long (as "A.R. Long")
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Categories:
GenreHumorous,
MotifAnti-social Mathematicians, Math as Cold/Dry/Useless, Romance,
TopicMathematical Finance,
MediumFilms,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)