Hollywood
A TV scene of a government agent recruiting an MIT genius with absurd credentials, mocking how movies portray mathematicians.
Content note: Mentions terrorists (in a TV-thriller parody).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-30-hollywood/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[TV] Agent: "You're the biggest genius at MIT. You have four PhD's and can calculate the digits of π... in Roman numerals. But can you help us stop terrorists?"
[Caption] "I wish Hollywood screenwriters knew more mathematicians."