The Professor and His Beloved Equation Huijing Huang

The Professor and His Beloved Equation Huijing Huang Lina Xie Kil Chung Ryan Lu

Characters The Professor - Has a memory that lasts 80 Minutes. The Housekeeper- Takes care of the Professor Root - the Housekeeper's son, who recounts his experiences with the Professor

Perfect Numbers Perfect numbers are numbers where the divisors add up to the original number. ex. 28 = 1 +2 + 4 + 7 + 14

Amicable Numbers Definition: Amicable numbers are two different numbers but the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. ● Example From the Movie ○ The housekeeper’s birthday is February 2 nd. (2. 20) ○ The number on the back of professor’s wrist watch is 284. 220 and 284 is a pair of amicable numbers. ● Other Amicable Numbers Example o (1184, 1210), (2620, 2924). . .

Factorials ● Example from Movie: o 24 - factorial of 4 (if you multiply the numbers 1 to 4, you will get 24) ● Other Examples: o 120 - factorial of 5 o 5, 040 - factorial of 7 So what are factorials? Factorials are just products, multiplying a series of natural numbers starting from a digit and descending to one. Factorials can also be expressed using an exclamation mark: 4!, 5!, and 7!

Euler’s Equation e: The Napier Number i: imaginary number pi: magical constant

The Heart of Mathematics ● The film portrays three types of LOVE ● The beauty of mathematics ● People can be connected by math