In this unit, we watched the gritty and, at times, disturbing movie Pi, by Darren Aronofsky. The story touches on science, religion, love, passion, and, of course, mathematics.
The https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/trivia?ref_=ttcc_sa_1
which may be a good resource for research topics) has this to say:
Michael Drosnin has a theory that if the Biblical Text is put through a computer and letters are selected at certain regular intervals, a decoded message emerges that predicts the future. Skeptics observe that he keeps trying it until it appears to work. This is a modern sophistication of a hobby that Isaac Newton sometimes indulged in, finding mathematically hidden messages in the Bible.
The number is G-d, the stock market, the future, or, apparently, anything else. When someone asks, “What does it all mean? What is the purpose of any of this?” this number is or contains the answer, to anyone who can understand it. It is the key to all, like the key described by the Talmud scholars that was lost to Jews when Romans burned their temples. The film seems to suggest that it’s better not to know the number, to forget it. This is essentially Sol’s advice throughout the movie: Forget the number! Live your life. Besides the ending, how does the movie convince us — if it does — of this theme that it’s better not to know and live in mystery? That is, how do the details of the movie — the script, the camera work, the details that may escape a casual observer — support this theme.