Math puzzles, part 2/3

[hennes]

Two days ago someone posted these links on an IRC channel:

1. http://bunbunmaru.com/wakaba/photos/src/1317203606.90948521.jpg
   
2. http://bunbunmaru.com/wakaba/photos/src/1317205463.5224561.png
   
3. http://bunbunmaru.com/wakaba/photos/src/1317205481.52651961.png
   

These contain links to three pictures with mathematical movie puzzles

Comments

[561]

sup is the supremum
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Supremum.html

[561]

... Least upper bound of a duck?? *giggles*

[hennes]

I did not know most films, but I made extensive use of the internet movie database.

Without that resource I would have recognised two film only. (The matrix and the beauty and the beast).

[561]

\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} is partial differentiation with respect to t (i.e. of a multi-variable function) not differentation...

Nabla^2 is the Laplacian
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Laplacian.html

The whole formula rings a bell... can't place it though

[561]

Got it!

It is the heat equation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_equation

Heat

[hennes]

Wow. Good find!

heat (1995)

[561]

This is fun, though, I know no film names. :)