The Proof

the Proof ( Proof in English) is a Play created by the American David Auburn, who is worth to him in 2001 the Prix Pulitzer and the Tony Award of the best part. This part would in particular have been inspired by the work of Andrew Wiles which showed in 1994 the Dernier theorem of Fermat.

Synopsis

the Proof has as main characters Robert, a mathematician of genious which sank in the madness, and his daughter who survives to him: Catherine, brilliant it also, but which sacrificed its studies and its youth (it is 25 years old) to take care on his/her sick father.

During his long Degeneration, Robert frantically writes more than one hundred of books.

After its death, the hour of the irrevocable choice arrived for Catherine, at the same time as arrives of New York his/her exuberant (and invading) sister, Claire. Moreover, one old studying of the department of mathematics launches out in the reading of the many notebooks of Robert to try to detect there the indices of a new mathematical theory.

In one of the manuscripts of the father, it finds a demonstration revolutionary. However, Catherine affirms to be the author about it…

Adaptations

With its creation with Broadway, it is Mary-Louise Parker which held the role of Catherine successfully.

Frenchwoman

Adaptation 2002

Québécois

Adaptation 2002

Cinematographic

David Auburn itself worked with this adaptation, with Rebecca Miller, girl of Arthur Miller and marries Daniel Day-Lewis.

With the setting in scene and in the role of Catherine, one finds the duet of Shakespeare in Coils : John Madden and Gwyneth Paltrow, which, in 2000, had already created the part Proof on scene with London. Anthony Hopkins interprets there the father, Hope Davis the sister, and Jake Gyllenhaal, the pupil.

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