Travelling Salesman

2012

Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1411 1.4K

mathematics thriller p=np

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Plot summary

Four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees that they must be wary with whom to trust and control their solution. The official offers them a reward of $10 million in exchange for their portion of the algorithm, swaying them by attempting to address their concerns. Only one of the four speaks out against the sale, and in doing so is forced to reveal a dark truth about his portion of the solution. Before they sign a license to the government, however, they wrestle with the ethical consequences of their discovery. -- Wikipedia

Director

Timothy Lanzone Photo
Timothy Lanzone

Top cast

Eric Bloom Photo
Eric Bloom as No. 2
Steve West Photo
Steve West as Hugh
Matt Lagan Photo
Matt Lagan as Number Four
Danny Barclay Photo
Danny Barclay as No. 1 - Tim Horton
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Interesting film exploring the ethical problems that would

Interesting film exploring the ethical problems that would be unleashed if solving NP hard problems suddenly became easy (perhaps with quantum computing?). Who should control that power? In the Internet of Things, if encryption can be easily defeated bad things can happen. While we probably won't solve NP-hard problems anytime soon, this movie highlights the dangers of our overly connected and questionably secure systems. Extra star here if you studied computer science. :)
Reviewed by Dehv B 2 / 10

Painful to watch. Shaky telephoto shots combined with

Painful to watch. Shaky telephoto shots combined with slow plot, my brain doesn't know if it should explode or shut down completely to cope with this clusterfudge of intentions malformed into a so called film.
Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

TL;DR: Not much science and a lot of

TL;DR: Not much science and a lot of technobabble with a thin coating of ethics. Stay away in droves. Much ado about nothing. Firstly, there's a lot of talk about NP complete problems, and not much talk about why we care or how they work. Secondly, this is nearly as boring as "My Dinner with Andre". Lots-o-talk, not much plot. There's a lot of "As you Know Bob..." type exposition. A little like "12 Angry Men" but not nearly as convincing. There are lots of confusing claims about the power of P=NP. Apparently, making all problems solvable in polynomial time means ... all systems are hackable. So, one guy can take down the world. It's quite a stretch from reality. This movie wants to draw a parallel between the Manhattan Project and the ability to solve difficult computing/mathematical problems quickly. Such a thing would make encryption (as used in passwords and internet security) easily defeated. So, the government villain wants to make sure only the USA has the knowledge and asks the eggheads to trust him. The film ends with a strange scene where our hero (the lone holdout) reads the letter from the White House and sees a watermark of the "all-seeing eye" in the paper and decides to shut down the internet/power grid over the entire earth. Apparently this was his ace in the hole. Now that the genie is out of the bottle, he walks alone into the distance like Bill Bixby at the end of every episode of The Hulk. The performances are fine and the grainy video sets a somber tone. But there's nothing redeeming about this movie. It doesn't educate anyone on anything. It isn't a warning call on the precarious situation our interconnectedness gives us - because it's all about P vs. NP. This is a rambling collection of factoids about modern technology and the danger of someone taking over the world through tech. It's mostly nonsensical technobabble with at thin veneer of ethics. Stay away in droves. Instead try "Taming the Quantum World." It's a documentary and will shed more light than "Traveling Salesman" even thinks about.
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