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Immanuel 2022-10-08 07:56:18

Watched the movie "The Oxford Murder" and hated it to death. Looking for novels to read, although there is no excellent detective novel, and it has the usual boringness of mathematicians and logicians, it is boring and serious, and has its own speculative vitality. As a girl who grew up listening to the great names of "Pythagoras, Goldbach", I can fully understand the enthusiasm of a mathematician to dedicate his fantasy to his ancestors.
Novel recommendation index: four stars.
If I have a daughter, I will definitely buy this book for her, to stimulate her love of mathematics and the pursuit of the beauty of logic from the side.

Movie recommendation index: two stars.
I don't know if the movie smeared mathematicians like that because of the idiots' infinite worship of mathematics, all natural sciences, science and technology, or the slander that hides vicious jealousy. However, looking at how pseudo-scientific and anti-scientific most of the so-called science fiction films on the market are, it is inevitable that people will have the desire to set off a "burning books and pitting Confucianism" movement.

The misuse of the butterfly effect has become one of the most ridiculous excuses. God, in chaos, those nonlinear relationships are still logical relationships. But if someone believes that mathematics, pharmacology and social news can be stacked on the same shelf in a bookstore, that middle-aged nurses are familiar with Wittgenstein, and school bus drivers are well aware of Pythagorean semiotics, there is nowhere for reason and logic. Shelter. God, it's not Oxford, it's heaven, or the level above the Ninefold, (not the seven deadly sins of old Seldom!)

Also, I'm going to rant against those far-fetched, disgusting n-corners: 22-year-old The international student got on the bed of the middle-aged nurse, and the middle-aged nurse had an affair with the old professor. There is also a cellist dangling on the tail of youth. After killing people, he actually seduces the little white face in a jealous and tangled mood. God, if the screenwriters and directors were in front of me, I would definitely ask very meanly: "If you are so obsessed, the sperm must have crawled into the brain, and the lower half will not work."
Oops, as an unmarried woman, it seems that I should not So direct. Then the witch Sha would pray: "O great sage, Pythagoras, throw all these sinners into the fire and burn them to death."

Went to see Avatar last night: first-class graphics, third-class story. Thank God, the love triangle in it did not cause common literary and artistic plots such as love murder, traitor, etc., and gave Su Tai the death of a cold weapon hero.
To put it leniently: From the needless panic of alien invasion to the active review of human aggression, the changes in the film's story reflect a kind of human progress.
To put it sarcastically: the vast majority of people can only understand the greed of finance - after all, compared with any science, finance, whose mathematical difficulty is almost limited to mental arithmetic, is easier to be understood by the lazy public. And science, the enthusiasm of science, can only be seen by active and diligent people. As a "bookworm" with a background in science and engineering, I would like to believe that the vast majority of people still have the will of kindness and peace - this is also the basis for the sensational movie to sell well. As long as correct scientific guidance is needed, the earth will not be destroyed, and life will always get better and better.

Like the end of the Oxford Mystery. The murder happened by accident, a mistake; the process of covering up the murder was deliberate and genuine. Do not report, because punishment does not equal absolute justice. In Beth's case, the trial of the law may have shattered the happiness of many more. Like innocent Michael. Beth, and even Professor Seldom for the rest of her life, must have lived in a state of apprehension. This is actually the humanistic judgment of the author, a mathematician, who leaves room for repentance for both criminals and readers.
Mathematics, all science, progresses in constant self-denial. This kind of self-denial and self-redemption is the most tolerant and strictest way of redemption that human beings can give themselves.

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The Oxford Murders quotes

  • Arthur Seldom: We have an absolute truth! Everything is fake.

  • Arthur Seldom: I hope my failure has at least taught you something.