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    • Rolling out the red carpet for the Travelling Salesman

      10 December, 2012
      Timothy Lanzone

      Timothy Lanzone on the set

      Travelling Salesman is an unusual movie: despite almost every character being a mathematician there's not a mad person in sight. Moreover, the plot centres on one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, does P = NP? We were lucky enough to host the UK premiere of this movie last month, here at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences , the home of Plus. We spoke to Jonathan Oppenheim from University College London about the maths behind the movie and to the film's writer and director, Timothy Lanzone about creating drama from mathematics.

      (The sound effects used in this podcast are by jlozano and nemoDaedalus.)

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