Movies: Mathematics
- 2016
Dimensions (2016)
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A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....
- 1986
El hipercubo (1986)
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Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, through the senses, the fourth mathematical dimension....
- 1991
Theory of Sets (1991)
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Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example....
- 2001
Fermat's Last Tango (2001)
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A musical fantasia based on the true encounter between mathematician Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem....
- 2017
Girls Who Fell in Love with Math (2017)
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The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s and dreamt of pursuing math....
- 2013
Dimensions (2013)
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Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!...
- 2020
The Mathematics Of Change (2020)
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THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANGE is the uproarious and moving story of a young aspiring mathematician who unexpectedly discovers his limits as a Princeton University freshman. Acclaimed comic monologuist Josh Kornbluth has toured the U.S. extensively with t...
- 2008
Hard Problems (2008)
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Hard Problems is about the extraordinary gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world's toughest math competition: The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). It is the story of six American high school students who compe...
- 1961
Symmetry (1961)
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Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the ...
- 1973
Exponents: A Study in Generalization (1973)
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Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With the exclusive use of storytelling through animation this lively and exuberant presentation of the “a...
- 1987
Letters from an Indian Clerk (1987)
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The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy....
- 2017
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3 (2017)
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Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 3 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and division through fact families. With fun characters that you will grow to love, level 3 will teach you to ea...
- 1983
The Occult Philosophy (1983)
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An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry and laser beams, with direct references to the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci and the work of Agrippa von Nettesh...
- 2019
Great Pyramid K 2019 (2019)
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Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was them, have achieved those shapes in the sculpture sphinx of Sénousret made of Migmatite material, whic...
- 1976
The Mathematician (1976)
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The salutary tale of a genius mathematician who discovers that mankind is heading for environmental disaster. Ignored by all, he sets out to prove it — however the proof, represented by “a little black box”, is taken up by those previous doubters and...
- 1936
The Equation X + X = 0 (1936)
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“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of shape and motion” wrote Robert Fairthorne in Film Art in 1936. A mathematician and information scientist, Fairthorne s...
- 2013
The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2013)
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A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan....
- 1987
Curriculum vitae (1987)
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An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school....
- 2008
The Spell of the Poincare Conjecture (2008)
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- 2016
Eliyahu Rips: The Burning (2016)
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In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital fo...