Adventures of a Mathematician

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Georgia L A powerful psychological analysis of the ethical and personal issues experienced by the Manhattan project scientists, many of whom were European exiles at Los Alamos. A very good portrayal of the tensions between wanting to defeat Hitler and not wanting to produce a bomb that could destroy the world. We see the close relationship between the Polish mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam and the Hungarian, John von Neuman, who after the war, died of cancer in 1957, likely from radiation poisoning. Stanislaw Ulam survived to produce foundational mathematics that underlie todays tensions over the risks or potential of artificial intelligence. Dilemmas continue. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/21/23 Full Review Audience Member "Adventures of a Mathematician" has a competent cast, and that's it. Stanislaw Ulam's treatment is almost disrespectful here. The film tells his achievements instead of showing them, his character is written almost as an NPC, and his achievements seem to not have a significant value. Not only his achievements, but everything seems to have no value at all, neither the death of someone loved, nor the solution of an equation which the protagonist was desperate to find, and nor the victory in a war. The film is monotonic, and this is its second-biggest mistake. I can resume everything I wrote until now in one sentence: "Adventures of a Mathematician" is a worse version of "The Imitation Game". I don't like the 2014 film, especially because the plot of Alan Turing handling with his homosexuality doesn't fit well with the ENIGMA narrative, but the protagonist is treated with a lot more of respect: we root for him, we see how much he's intelligent, and the most important, we feel how much his achievements mean for him, for his crowd and for his country. Not for nothing, Morten Tyldum was nominated for Best Director and Benedict Cumberbatch for Best Actor at the Academy Awards on that time. Thor Klein should have used that movie as an example. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Amazing movie, actually, although it's primarily for a niche audience: those who know something of the Manhattan Project, and want to glimpse the realities, the personalities, the concerns, that affected the geniuses who were gathered by the US (and UK) government, to develop the atomic bomb in World War 2. I just learned today that more than 30% of all electricity generated in the US during the war, was dedicated to this development. Shows you how desperate the US was fighting the Nazi's and the Japanese. It seemed to our leaders, particularly Pres. Roosevelt, that if we lost that war, we would not survive as a people. These are the guys who made that ultimate weapon, to be sure that we didn't lose that war. Worth watching. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting story about a very interesting man, as other already said a bit dry at time but still enjoyable Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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