Math biopics I'd like to see
Posted: August 18th, 2023, 12:40 pm
Oppenheimer was a physicist rather than mathematician, but close enough that I would list the recent movie along with ones about Turing and Ramanujan (nearly 10 years ago) as math biopics.
There are still many possibilities here. One that might hold popular interest would be one on John von Neumann, who could certainly be tied into Cold War drama, if you need something like that as a selling point.
John Conway's story might be interesting, though not heavy on drama. I wonder what a biopic of Paul Erdős would look like. I think that could make a really fascinating movie, though it could also be done very badly if the filmmakers decided they needed to make him more eccentric, or less eccentric, or add some implausible backstory.
There are still many possibilities here. One that might hold popular interest would be one on John von Neumann, who could certainly be tied into Cold War drama, if you need something like that as a selling point.
John Conway's story might be interesting, though not heavy on drama. I wonder what a biopic of Paul Erdős would look like. I think that could make a really fascinating movie, though it could also be done very badly if the filmmakers decided they needed to make him more eccentric, or less eccentric, or add some implausible backstory.