Mathematics Movies

  • 2010
    Clouds Are Not Spheres

    Clouds Are Not Spheres

    Clouds Are Not Spheres

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    Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or the beauty of the human body....

    Clouds Are Not Spheres
  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

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    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 2015
    Albert Einstein: l'homme et le génie

    Albert Einstein: l'homme et le génie

    Albert Einstein: l'homme et le génie

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    Albert Einstein: l'homme et le génie
  • 2017
    Alternative Math

    Alternative Math

    Alternative Math

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    A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

    Alternative Math
  • 2015
    NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

    NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

    NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

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    NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's...

    NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
  • 2015
    Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

    Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

    Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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    In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known...

    Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
  • 1989
    The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set

    The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set

    The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set

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    A video by doctor John Hubbard discussing the origin, characteristics, and applications of the Mandelbrot set and other iterative sets.

    The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set
  • 1965
    Flatland

    Flatland

    Flatland

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    A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

    Flatland
  • 1972
    The Mathematician and the Devil

    The Mathematician and the Devil

    The Mathematician and the Devil

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    A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur...

    The Mathematician and the Devil
  • 1961
    Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

    Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

    Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

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    Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane...

    Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
  • 1994
    Outside In

    Outside In

    Outside In

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    The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of...

    Outside In
  • 2012
    Tails You Win: The Science of Chance

    Tails You Win: The Science of Chance

    Tails You Win: The Science of Chance

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    Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he...

    Tails You Win: The Science of Chance
  • 1999
    Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972

    Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972

    Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972

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    A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a...

    Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972
  • 2012
    Travelling Salesman

    Travelling Salesman

    Travelling Salesman

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    Four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees...

    Travelling Salesman
  • 2009
    Basketball and Mathematics

    Basketball and Mathematics

    Basketball and Mathematics

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    Jérôme and Cédric play basketball in the same team at school and are best friends. Jérôme also gives Cédric...

    Basketball and Mathematics
  • 2007
    Beautiful Young Minds

    Beautiful Young Minds

    Beautiful Young Minds

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    This BAFTA nominated documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted...

    Beautiful Young Minds
  • 1982
    Kafedra

    Kafedra

    Kafedra

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    Kafedra
  • 2020
    Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen

    Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen

    Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen

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    Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in Yokohama, KenKen was born. Enter a world where...

    Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen
  • 1961
    Symmetry

    Symmetry

    Symmetry

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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...

    Symmetry
  • 2017
    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 2

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 2

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 2

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    Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 2 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and...

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 2