The Mathematician and the Devil
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The Mathematician and the Devil

DirectorSemyon Raytburt

7.9 / 10
1972
21 min
ComedyDramaFantasy

A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.

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