Seldom tells the police that he had received a note with his friend's address marked as "the first of a series". The two men enter the house together and find Martin's landlady murdered. Martin then returns to his residence, where he finds Seldom arriving to visit Mrs. There, he encounters his office-mate, a bitter mathematician Podorov ( Burn Gorman), who also failed to become a student of Seldom's. Disillusioned, Martin decides to abandon his studies and goes to his office to collect his belongings. Seldom humiliates him, ridiculing his arguments and making him look foolish in front of the audience. Hoping to impress his idol, Martin disputes this, asserting his faith in the absolute truth of mathematics: "I believe in the number pi". In a public lecture, Seldom quotes Wittgenstein's Tractatus to deny the possibility of absolute truth. Also in the house is her daughter, Beth ( Julie Cox), who is her full-time caregiver – which she resents bitterly – and a musician by occupation. Eagleton ( Anna Massey), an old friend of Seldom. He takes accommodation in Oxford at the house of Mrs. He idolises Seldom and has learned all about him. In 1993, Martin ( Elijah Wood), a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom ( John Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. The plaster cast of Trajan's Column at the Victoria and Albert is discussed in the film.
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