Or: Dr. Arroway Flies Again
Today's math news mentioning the Hamming Medal
suggests…
Richard Hamming (d. 1998) as a real-life counterpart to
the techno-wizard S. R. Hadden in the 1997 film Contact .
Hamming devised a famous error-correcting code.
"You gotta be true to your code." —Sinatra
Review of a more recent Jodie Foster film, Flightplan :
"Is she crazy, or is she the victim of a conspiracy
that would have to be fragile, if not tortured, in its logic?"
