How about a romantic story in mathematics for our story #14? :’)
Today’s story is about the 1965 animated short film ‘The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics’ - directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble, based on the 1963 book of the same name written and illustrated by Norton Juster.
The film was narrated by Robert Morley and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (#MGM).
#What’s the story? - Well, it's math- so we can safely expect a #lovetriangle! (Spoiler- sorry!)
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
The story details a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, finding the line to be stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle.
Willing to do whatever it takes to win the dot's affection, the line manages to bend himself and form angle after angle until he is nothing more than a mess of sides, bends and angles.
When competing again, the squiggle claims that the line still has nothing to show to the dot. The line proves his rival wrong and is able to show the dot what she is really worth to him.
When she sees this, the dot realizes that her relationship with the squiggle has been a mistake. The squiggle makes an effort to reclaim her love by trying to do what the line did, but to no avail, as no matter how hard he tries to re-shape himself, he still remains the same tangled, chaotic mess of lines and curves.
Fed up, the dot tells him how she really feels about him, denouncing the squiggle as meaningless, undisciplined, insignificant, and out of luck. She leaves with the line, having accepted that he has much more to offer, and the punning moral is presented: "To the vector belong the spoils”.
This is one such unique story that I came across that teaches us about how to write a captivating story and merge math with it.
Sources:
<1> The dot and the line - book and movie.
<2> The dot and the line - wikipedia.
<3> The dot and the line - imdb.
<4> Google images.
#romance #mathematics #mathnbooks #mathnmovies #mathstories #story14
Today’s story is about the 1965 animated short film ‘The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics’ - directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble, based on the 1963 book of the same name written and illustrated by Norton Juster.
The film was narrated by Robert Morley and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (#MGM).
#What’s the story? - Well, it's math- so we can safely expect a #lovetriangle! (Spoiler- sorry!)
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
The story details a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, finding the line to be stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle.
Willing to do whatever it takes to win the dot's affection, the line manages to bend himself and form angle after angle until he is nothing more than a mess of sides, bends and angles.
When competing again, the squiggle claims that the line still has nothing to show to the dot. The line proves his rival wrong and is able to show the dot what she is really worth to him.
When she sees this, the dot realizes that her relationship with the squiggle has been a mistake. The squiggle makes an effort to reclaim her love by trying to do what the line did, but to no avail, as no matter how hard he tries to re-shape himself, he still remains the same tangled, chaotic mess of lines and curves.
Fed up, the dot tells him how she really feels about him, denouncing the squiggle as meaningless, undisciplined, insignificant, and out of luck. She leaves with the line, having accepted that he has much more to offer, and the punning moral is presented: "To the vector belong the spoils”.
This is one such unique story that I came across that teaches us about how to write a captivating story and merge math with it.
Sources:
<1> The dot and the line - book and movie.
<2> The dot and the line - wikipedia.
<3> The dot and the line - imdb.
<4> Google images.
#romance #mathematics #mathnbooks #mathnmovies #mathstories #story14
