If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it. It's a bit of a sleeper hit I think, even for Coen brothers fans. It's really quite perfect and nails all the colloquialisms it gets at, which are a plenty. I rewatch it every now and then and just laugh my ass off.
There are some mistakes on the board in the scene where Abelman pounds his head into it but I assure you other grad students in my department and I enjoyed the movie immensely nonetheless.
I almost mentioned that, so it's funny you did. Lol. I noticed when I saw it in the theater that the formula for the variance was written wrong. If I recall correctly, it was zero because it was subtracting the same term twice since either both squares were either inside or outside the brackets instead of the proper formula. I never went back to take a look at the rest of the board. Upon rewatches, my eyes always go back to that same spot.
