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Sorry if slightly off topic: This reminds of me a great play about a young, fictional mathematician woman that comes to great insights about chaos and entropy in the universe.

The ending is beautiful.

"Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard



In a similar vein there was also David Auburn's "Proof" which featured a female mathematician following in the footsteps of her mentally ill mathematician father.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(play)


Arcadia was infinitely better imho. Proof is formulaic (didactic and on the nose on its moralizing theme) and propagates a number of stereotypes about mathematicians around mental health and the lone genius etc.


My favorite of Stoppard's plays. (Which is a very high bar.)




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