How I Came to Hate Maths (Comment j'ai deteste les maths): Film Review

Fields Medal laureate Cedric Villani is one of many characters in director Olivier Peyon's portrait of modern-day mathematicians. Anyone who’s suffered through a high school algebra course has certainly wondered to themselves: What’s the point of all this? That’s the question French filmmaker Olivier Peyon attempts to answer in his globetrotting documentary How I Came to Hate Maths (Comment j’ai deteste les maths). Chock-full of interviews with some of today’s brightest mathematical mi...