Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel collaborated with a French filmmaker to create an erotic short film called Rites d'Amour et de Maths; in it, a doomed mathematician discovers the formula for love and tattoos it on his lover's belly. It's an homage to Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's movie Yukoku and his subsequent seppuku suicide.
Mathematician makes Mishima-inspired erotic film
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