Math in Movies: Run Lola Run

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Math in Movies
Date: March 2006 - October 2009
by:
Oliver Knill
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
This movie appeared in the year 1998.
More information can be found here [external IMDb link]
You can also watch a Ipod version.

Beside the main theme of "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", there is a "run of Lola" in which she wins in roulette twice betting on the same number 20, multiplying the initial input of 100 mark by 352. The second bet has an element of Grass's Blechtrommel cry, mathematically related to "resonance".


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