A Disappearing Number
Book tickets and go and see this.
It’s Complicite’s take on string theory/interconnectedness of everything, the beauty of mathematics, the repeatability of history (though mathematicians – strangely riffing on Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia in my mind, also spotted Tom in the audience, I think), a love story, a genius Indian mathematician (Ramanujan), infinity and infinites of infinity, and
Why 1729 is an intriguing number in the history of mathematics? Clue it is all to do with cubics
and if you listen carefully it will teach you the difference between countable sets of numbers, and uncountable sets and the different types of infinity.
More thoughts from my maths brain when I have a little bit more time, not sure when that will be…
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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Would love to but can’t (location) – sounds like my type of thing, especially if it proves the key to life and everything! I have no brain capacity for maths though so wonder if half of it would evade my understanding.
This reminded me I keep meaning to read Longitude and must add to my growing must read list on FB as a reminder.
(How do infinites of infinity work??)