MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Imperativ (1982)
Krzysztof Zanussi
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Contributed by Alejandro Martin

It is about a mathematician (a probability professor) in existential crisis about the nature of necessity and chance.

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MotifAcademia,
TopicProbability/Statistics,
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.

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