Pi

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by Darren Aronofsky

Faber and Faber

Due/Published April 1999, 160 pages, paper

ISBN 057120042

At the center of the screenplay Pi is Max Cohen, a brilliant and troubled man on the verge of the most important discovery of his life. For the past ten years he has been attempting to decode the numerical pattern beneath the ultimate system of ordered chaos--the stock market. As Max verges on a solution, chaos is swallowing the world around him. He is pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination as well as by a Kabbalah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind its holy texts. Max races to crack the code, hoping to defy the madness that looms before him. In succeeding, he uncovers a secret everyone is willing to kill for.

Also included with the screenplay is a full journal of how Darren Aronofsky made this award-winning film on a budget of only $60,000.