10 movies that could make you smarter

4. Mathematics – Proof 2005

When your friend swaggers about Math in your face, you can only retaliate with – Uh, are you talking Martian with me? After watching this film and hacking the trick, you will finally have something to rave back.

In a scene where Robert [Anthony Hopkins] and Catherine [Gwyneth Paltrow] mention 1729 as thesmallest number expressed by the sum of 2 cubes in 2 different ways such as 12 cube + 1 cube = 1729 and 10 cube + 9 cube = 1729, your anxiety to prove it yourself plagues you.

And you thought it was brutal. It’s only slick multiplications and additions. [1 x 1 x 1 = 1] plus [12 x 12 = 144  x  12 = 1728] So then 1 + 1728 = 1729. [10 x 10 = 100 x 10 = 1000] plus [9 x 9 = 81 x 9 = 729]. And 1000 + 729 = 1729.

Now for the first time in the history of your adult events, you know your cubes.