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Marguerite's Theorem

So, in the library, I read all the math books I could find to solve tangible problemsthat...

So, in the library, I read all the math books I could find to solve tangible problems
that have solutions

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So, in the library,
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I read all the math books I could find
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to solve tangible problems that have solutions.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:08
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
comedy, drama, mystery
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life, she decides to quit everything and star...
A currently unsolved problem - Marguerite's Theorem 00:08
A currently unsolved problem
I knew I'd spend my life trying to solve it. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
I knew I'd spend my life trying to solve it.
Goldbach was a way - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
Goldbach was a way
My father left when I was 9. We lived in Berlin then. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
My father left when I was 9. We lived in Berlin then.
When he left us, - Marguerite's Theorem 00:07
When he left us,
She's the best mahjong player in the neighborhood. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
She's the best mahjong player in the neighborhood.
So, tomorrow, are we working together? - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
So, tomorrow, are we working together?
When he got stuck, he let off steam by pumping iron. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
When he got stuck, he let off steam by pumping iron.
He never proved Riemann - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
He never proved Riemann
How about using distribution of prime numbers to find a lower bound? - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
How about using distribution of prime numbers to find a lowe...
You may wonder what it has to do with me... - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
You may wonder what it has to do with me...
But she was so worried that I felt partly responsible - Marguerite's Theorem 00:09
But she was so worried that I felt partly responsible
I know how mathematics can make a person vulnerable. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
I know how mathematics can make a person vulnerable.
We carry within us an obsessive aspect, - Marguerite's Theorem 00:10
We carry within us an obsessive aspect,
You're not the first mathematician it's happened to. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
You're not the first mathematician it's happened t...
I had a long rivalry with an ENS colleague - Marguerite's Theorem 00:09
I had a long rivalry with an ENS colleague
I was quite relieved when he left to teach at Yale. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
I was quite relieved when he left to teach at Yale.
Five years later, he won the Fields Medal - Marguerite's Theorem 00:07
Five years later, he won the Fields Medal
So I moved onto an even more ambitious goal. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:06
So I moved onto an even more ambitious goal.
Since Szemerédi, I know it will be proved one day. - Marguerite's Theorem 00:05
Since Szemerédi, I know it will be proved one day.