Mathematics Movies
- 1961
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem51961HD
Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane...
- 1994
Outside In
Outside In81994HD
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...
- 1973
Exponents: A Study in Generalization
Exponents: A Study in Generalization01973HD
Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With...
- 2000
How Much is a Million?
How Much is a Million?02000HD
With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.
- 1961
Symmetry
Symmetry7.51961HD
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...
- 1969
Topology
Topology01969HD
One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.
- 2016
Eliyahu Rips: The Burning
Eliyahu Rips: The Burning02016HD
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...
- 2012
La Costante di Archimede
La Costante di Archimede102012HD
- 2013
The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan82013HD
A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- 2001
Fermat's Last Tango
Fermat's Last Tango02001HD
A musical fantasia based on the true encounter between mathematician Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem.
- 1936
The Equation X + X = 0
The Equation X + X = 0101936HD
“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of...
- 2018
Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication
Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication02018HD
Meet the Math Facts videos made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills...
- 2017
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 102017HD
Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 1 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and...
- 2017
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 302017HD
Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 3 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and...
- 2017
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 2
Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 202017HD
Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 2 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and...
- 2017
Girls Who Fell in Love with Math
Girls Who Fell in Love with Math02017HD
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.
- 2012
The Joy of Chance
The Joy of Chance02012HD
How can you maximize your chances of living until you’re 100? Why do many of us experience spooky coincidences? Should I take an umbrella?...
- 1987
Letters from an Indian Clerk
Letters from an Indian Clerk01987HD
The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work...
- 1990
Not Knot
Not Knot01990HD
Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a...