Trying to keep up with math, film and these blogs.

I have always had an interest in math but have never heard of anyone compare it to art other than M.C. Esher's works of art. During the lecture James Benning did his presentation and the whole time I did not get how it was supposed to relate to filmmaking. I realized the next day that the math lecture was for us to relate the lecture to film in the way we want. I went over his lecture again, and saw many relations to filmmaking.

1) The Pythagorean Theorem showed us the films don't have to be silent to get a message across. This is shown when Benning did his proof of the theorem without talking or at least mostly not talking. 

2) Imperfections are not a bad thing. Math, the universal language, has problems with working out, well, problems. Film has the same set back but this problems are not bad. They in fact help the understanding of the film as they do to the understanding of math. 

3) Benning mentions that prime numbers have no purpose, but yet people write many dissertations in prime numbers. Benning puts in his opinion on this and say that its "beautiful." The subject of films can be interpreted in the same way. It is beautiful to explore subjects that are unordinary through films.