Film Rights
A Hollywood studio calls the wrong writer: a mathematician eager to cast Oscar Isaac in his proof.
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Caller: "Hollywood here. I'll cut to the chase. We love your writing and we'd like to purchase the film rights."
Mathematician: "You want to make a movie... about my proof of sharp constants for extremal functions?" Caller: "...uh, I may have a wrong number..."
Mathematician: "Can you get Oscar Isaac to play the nonlinear operator? I wrote with him in mind."