jiarby Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Since joining the KK forum Syzygies imdb popularity ranking has plummeted... down 23%!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trish Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I think there is an attachment that is not showing....Not sure I get the post. Have you and Syz been suspended from the other forum? Has he been here long enough for us to make jokes about him yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygies Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Glenn's at it again! Not sure why, the image didn't show for me either until I tried its URL in a new window: (Don't get Glenn and me started ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadDog Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 So is there a way for us to get his popularity back up? What do we need to do search for his name in IMDb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxwrangler Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 No, it's based on a compex mathematical formula. Now, if we could only find a mathematician... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trish Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Glenn....I'm sure there is a plague or trophy for such milestones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Glenn....I'm sure there is a plague or trophy for such milestones. Hmmmm, not sure he really deserves the plague Trish, he did the best retexture he could Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trish Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiarby Posted December 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 No, I am not banned at the other forum, but I did commit "Kamado Suicide" and deleted my profile of my own accord. I decided to just ride off into the sunset. I guess I could give Syzygies the flu, but not the plague. I could make him a Plaque to commemorate his achievement and maybe a trophy that kinda barely looks like an Oscar® statue....but not enough to get me sued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences®. Dave told me that he was Russell Crow's "Hand Double" whenever there was a close up scene of Crow writing math on the chalkboard it was really Syzygies in the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trish Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 So Syzygies' hand is more beautiful than his mind! I can see where he'd have difficulty finding more work as a mathematicians' hand/stunt double. Keeping that hand in shape must take a lot of exercise. I imagine he had to read for the part....who did he beat out! The hand double for Good Will Hunting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygies Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Keeping that hand in shape must take a lot of exercise. I imagine he had to read for the part.... Sounds like you're thinking more along the lines of a casting couch? Actually, my hand did get one love scene, pointing at stars with Jennifer Connolly's double. In classic Hollywood fashion, we got about two minutes to get comfortable with each other before they starting filming. Earlier, Russell Crowe got this idea that we should wear acrylic nails to make our hands look longer and more graceful, more like John Nash's hands. I ended up going to the same salon in New Jersey that did Edie Falco's nails for the Sopranos. (No, one can't make this stuff up.) The head of the salon was on a cell phone from a Caribbean cruise ship as she monitored her assistant on this crucial assignment. She asked if I was doing anything else on the film, and I promptly asserted that I was also Russell's love scene double. "Honey, will you be needing an extension for that, too?" Here's my favorite writeup, from The New Yorker: A Beautiful Hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trish Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 So was it your hand that threw the phone for Crowe in the hotel? I think that happened in New York didn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firemonkey Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 "It was supposed to be in some sense numerological gibberish, but he had the sense that it wasn't quite gibberish, and he wanted me to say what it was." And Nash was right, Bayer said: "It wasn't quite gibberish." So would you care to enlighten those of us who are mathematically challenged? What exactly was it that was on the clipboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygies Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 So would you care to enlighten those of us who are mathematically challenged? What exactly was it that was on the clipboard? Akiva Goldsman simplified Nash's post-illness mathematical career by having him concentrate on the Riemann Hypothesis. This is one of the biggest open problems in mathematics, it has some practical consequences e.g. for making and breaking codes, though one can often take advantage of these consequences by simply hoping that it is true, and praying that what one did turns out to be justified. The descriptions are generally very technical, but the RH relates prime numbers (places along the usual number line) to other places in a "complex plane" containing the number line. This complex plane is generally accepted now, but wasn't universally accepted a few centuries ago. What's worse, our typical "flashlight" (infinite sums) illuminates round disks, and can't even see the places in the complex plane that the RH discusses. Infinite divides (continued fractions) have a different shaped "flashlight" pattern, more like lighting a lantern in the woods, and shining light everywhere not blocked by trees. I had Nash playing with continued fractions related to primes, at this point in the film where he was just starting to recover from his illness. The complex plane is just the second in a sequence of harder, stranger spaces of numbers; the next is four dimensional. So is space-time. I had Nash equate these, looking to solve the RH in four dimensions, in his Harvard Lecture Hall talk where he cracks up and runs. I ran this line by my colleague Brian Greene and it completely cracked him up, so I had to use it. Others saw the film and were particularly scornful of this line, such is life. It was "in character" for Nash at this point in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Yah. That explanation helped. :::giggle::: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbower Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Yah. That explanation helped. :::giggle::: Just remember, Sanny, "Math is hard!" My mother was a high school math teacher, my in-laws teach math at UCSD; I can't get away from math if I tried I can, however, appreciate this comic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
