If Thor Klein's goal was to reconcile us with the maths, it's a bit of a failure.
His film, which traces the fate of a mathematics teacher of Polish Jewish origin who emigrated to the United States in 1938, brings to the fore what we had only assumed: these people are dangerous.
Filled with good feelings, touching at times, but dangerous.
This Stanislaw Ulam, for example.
When we see him teaching at university, playing with numbers like us with small cars at 10, talking about his calculations as if it were less a science than an art, talking about Jewish jokes in the desert of Los Alamos, one is pleasantly surprised: so they can also be so?
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It doesn't last.
While he has his own world, Ulam does not escape those around him.
While he and his brother Adam came to study on the American East Coast, his family remained in Lvov - despite their pleas to join them in escaping the Nazi threat.
The German invasion of
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