Science in culture
Science in culture
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作者：
G. Farmelo
我相信，π是第一部以数学符号命名的电影。这是一个时代的标志：数学正在渗透到大众文化中，尤其是通过书籍，安德鲁·怀尔斯（Andrew Wiles）对费马大定理的证明和数论家保罗·Erdös （Paul Erdös）的生活成为娱乐闲聊的内容。教育界的“耶利米”们刚让我们相信，学校的数学水平很低，而且还在不断下降，至少在西方是这样，数学就成了那些欣然承认自己不会做长除法的人的一项大型商务休闲活动。
π is, I believe, the first film to be named after a mathematical symbol. This is a sign of the times: mathematics is seeping into popular culture, notably through books that have made Andrew Wiles' sproof of Fermat's last theorem and the life of the number theorist Paul Erdös the stuff of recreational chatter.No sooner have the educational Jeremiahs convinced us that mathematical standards in schools are both low and falling, at least in the West, than the subject becomes a big-business leisure activity among people who cheerfully admit they cannot cope with long division.