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A Brilliant Young Mind Page #4
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Michael:
One, two,buckle my shoe
Three, four.
Knock on my door.
Five, six, pick up your sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight
One, two.
Buckle my shoe
Three, four...
Strong squad this year?
Testing my team for
weaknesses, Richard?
not take it so seriously.
It's all right for you, you got the
best in the world to choose from.
But having your niece
on the team, Deng?
I mean, really?
You'll see.
Luke, I don't care.
Civilizations have used 10, not
l2, digits to count for millennia.
Yes, for purely primitive reasons, and the
fact that we have ten digits on our hands.
My argument is that
if we use base 12
it is an infinitely superior
system, and more logical.
there are 12 hours a
night and 12 hours a day,
are 12 five-minute increments.
And what do you
think, Nathan?
You a member of the
dozenalist society?
I don't know.
Sorry.
People disagreeing with my opinion
is one thing, but no opinion?
You might as well not be here.
The vertices of a
regular 72-gon.
The vertices of a
regular 72-gon
are each coloured red, green
or blue in equal amounts.
Show that we can always choose four
red, four green or four blue vertices
such that each monochromatic set
form a congruent quadrilateral.
Yes, so, of course, the whole question
can be trivialised by Ramsey Theory.
No, sorry, Luke. There were
Well, I've already
answered it now.
Really? You think so?
Is anyone here convinced
by Luke's answer?
"It's interesting you ask
"is anyone convinced?"
rather than "is anyone
not convinced?"
- I'm not convinced.
- I'm not convinced.
Nathan, would you
join in, please?
This isn't a holiday.
Do you have a proof to share?
That's a disappointment.
Ben?
Muirhead's inequality
and Schur's inequality?
It's interesting stuff, Nathan, but
you do over-complicate everything.
Things can be much simpler
than they initially appear.
Did Mr. Humphreys
not tell you that?
Mind you, he never did quite
live up to his potential, that one.
It's because his illness
was getting worse.
His Illness?
Is he still using that excuse?
Stephen Hawking has
done all right on far worse.
No, I'm afraid it wasn't Mr.
Humphreys' body that failed him,
it was his character.
He just couldn't stay with it.
If you must wait
Wait for them here in
my arms as I shake
If you must weep...
- Is that strong enough for you?
- That's fine.
- No sugar?
- No sugar, sweet enough for me.
- How are you doing?
- Never better.
You must mourn, my love
Mourn with the moon
and the stars up above
you must mourn
Don't do it alone
So, as well as your
cycle of amitriptyline,
you were prescribed glucocorticosteroids
for your latest relapse.
You can't have got through
all of those already.
I wouldn't have thought.
Someone broke Into my car.
Unfortunate.
- Mention it to the police?
- No, there's no point, is there?
Because they only stole
the pills and some CD's.
Bee Gees' greatest hits.
Which I was gutted about
because I bloody love those
squeaky little bastards.
So to be clear, these are not
anti-depressants, Mr. Humphreys.
I mean, that's good
because I'm not depressed.
You know, maybe you
wanna change your mind
about going to one of
those groups I mentioned?
What, sit in a circle and listen to
how crap everybody else's life is?
- You know, sharing your issues might help.
- Sharing my issues?
Like how I hate wobbling
about like a twat,
how I've started to lose control of my
bladder and it won't be on the floor
before I lose control of my
arse and start to sh*t myself.
So, be careful, 'cause I
could go at any second.
And then, to top it all off...
My dick doesn't work.
Is that the sort of thing you
think I should be sharing?
Yeah.
Perhaps.
No, but what I really
want, Martin, is for you to
not give up.
because it's my crack dealer.
- Hello?
- Hello, Martin.
It... It's Julie. Yes.
That's right. Julie Ellis.
- Hi. Hi.
- Hiya.
- Thanks for coming round. It's...
- It's all right.
- Yeah.
- You sure you're ready for this?
Absolutely.
Okay, then. Let's begin at
the beginning, shall we?
It's all right. It's like
anything. It's scary at first.
But then when you get your
head round it, you'll be all right.
Has he, um...
Has he rung you again?
- Nathan? No.
- Yeah.
Now, look, I'm sure he didn't
mean anything by it, calling me.
It's just he doesn't think
sometimes, does he?
Well, no, he does think a lot.
Which is fine, you know.
He just thinks I'm a bit of an idiot
because I failed at maths at school.
I mean, I got everything
else, it was just, you know...
It's why I wanna do this really,
you know, get into his head more.
- I'm not making sense. Shut up, Julie.
- No, you're making perfect sense.
- Not really.
- No, you are.
I mean, the thing about
maths, as with any subject,
I think if you have an inspirational
teacher, um, then you'll be away.
Which is where I come in.
Mr. Inspirational.
Okay, then.
Let's start with something...
- Yeah. Pythagoras. Yay.
- Okay.
- Can you say that word?
- Hypotenuse.
Bless you.
You all right? You got
a little bit of a cold?
It's time to step up, mofo,
and see what you can do.
Keep your Pythag theorem to yourself
I raise you B minus C plus F equals 2.
- Who's next? Who's next?
- Your turn, Luke.
Go, Luke.
Go, Luke. Go, Luke.
Thank you, but I really
don't see the point.
Apart from succumbing to
testosterone-fuelled irrationality.
It's because it's funny, Luke.
- Don't you have a sense of humour?
- Just ignore him.
He's here to bring the mood
down as always, so don't let him.
- I'm here to do maths.
- You're just a regular quadrilateral.
- Okay, take it, Ben.
- UK, make some noise!
'Cause I'm talking
pi, bro, I'm talking...
1141592653553...
9793238462643...
- Sorry.
- Um...
No, It's all right.
I was just practicing
my fingering.
Um...
Go on, laugh.
No? Okay.
Um, do you play?
- No.
- Come on.
So...
Beautiful sounds are
about frequency ratios.
The simpler the ratio, like this C
and this C, a simple ratio of 1:2.
Beautiful.
Complex harmonies, like this...
Ugly.
Do you want to try?
Okay.
Is that right?
Yeah, it was, um...
- So you've never played before?
- No.
All music is maths, really.
Come on, I'll teach
you the next bit.
- Is this all right?
- Christ, yeah.
- Do you want me to pour it out?
- Please.
It's nice to relax actually.
It's been a while.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
Well, it's good that you
find maths relaxing.
Must have been
very difficult for you,
being just you and Nathan.
You know, without...
- Michael.
- Michael.
- Sorry. D*ckhead.
- No.
- Me, not... Not Michael.
- I know.
Well, I mean, but you're...
You're the same.
It must be the...
I mean, you're not with anyone.
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