Mathematics Movies

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 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...

Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, through the senses, the fourth mathematical...

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...

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

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

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 Subtraction...

During the 1995 Summer Institute at The Geometry Center, a team of undergraduates, middle and high school mathematics teachers and Center staff...

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...

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 story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s and dreamt of pursuing math.

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

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...

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 Addition...

“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of...

A video puzzle using mathematical principles and prime numbers, daring the audience to decode it's journey.

Hard Problems is about the extraordinary gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world's toughest math competition: The...