Pi (1998) Number Theory vs. Numerology

The psychoscience thriller Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, has a fantastic scene where mathematician Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) insists to his mentor Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis) that the answer to everything has something to do with the number 216. The number in Kabbalistic tradition is called the Shemhamphorasch, an epithet for a 216letter name of God derived by medieval kabbalists from the Book of Exodus (chapter 14: 1921) by reading the letters of three verses in a specific order using a Bo