Death Proof
My flatmates and I went to see the new Quentin Tarantino film, Death Proof, last night. In this off-beat thriller, Tarantino turns his trademark blend of hip dialogue and beautifully-shot ultraviolence to the world of pure mathematics. Kurt Russell stars as an embittered former number theorist who plots revenge on the profession that wronged him by concocting a proof of Goldbach's Conjecture that causes cerebral overload and death in any mathematician that tries to read it. Watch out for the exploding blackboard that slices the heads off the front row of students in the lecture theatre, and see if you can spot all the references to the 1971 projective-geometry classic Vanishing Point! Also stars Fields Medallist Zoë Bell as herself.
Five stellated pentagons.
Five stellated pentagons.