Mathematics Movies

  • 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
  • 1973
    Exponents: A Study in Generalization

    Exponents: A Study in Generalization

    Exponents: A Study in Generalization

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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...

    Exponents: A Study in Generalization
  • 2000
    How Much is a Million?

    How Much is a Million?

    How Much is a Million?

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    With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.

    How Much is a Million?
  • 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
  • 1969
    Topology

    Topology

    Topology

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    One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

    Topology
  • 2016
    Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

    Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

    Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

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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...

    Eliyahu Rips: The Burning
  • 2012
    La Costante di Archimede

    La Costante di Archimede

    La Costante di Archimede

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    La Costante di Archimede
  • 2013
    The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

    The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

    The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

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    A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

    The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • 2001
    Fermat's Last Tango

    Fermat's Last Tango

    Fermat's Last Tango

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    A musical fantasia based on the true encounter between mathematician Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem.

    Fermat's Last Tango
  • 1936
    The Equation X + X = 0

    The Equation X + X = 0

    The Equation X + X = 0

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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...

    The Equation X + X = 0
  • 2018
    Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication

    Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication

    Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication

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    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...

    Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication
  • 2017
    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1

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    Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 1 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and...

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1
  • 2017
    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3

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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...

    Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3
  • 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
  • 2017
    Girls Who Fell in Love with Math

    Girls Who Fell in Love with Math

    Girls Who Fell in Love with Math

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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.

    Girls Who Fell in Love with Math
  • 2012
    The Joy of Chance

    The Joy of Chance

    The Joy of Chance

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    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?...

    The Joy of Chance
  • 1987
    Letters from an Indian Clerk

    Letters from an Indian Clerk

    Letters from an Indian Clerk

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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...

    Letters from an Indian Clerk
  • 1990
    Not Knot

    Not Knot

    Not Knot

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    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...

    Not Knot