Documentary Genre: Math Documentary

Can we experience the infinite? The world's most modern scientists and mathematicians embark on a search for the infinite and its amazing effects on the universe. A Trip to Infinity…

NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell,…

A 44-minute interview with mathematician Paul Halmos that touches on the Moore Method, becoming a mathematician, great teachers, designing a course, writing, and the state of education in the United…

A look at fractal geometry, and how it is found just about everywhere in everything, and how the mathematics of fractals can be used to model and measure such things…

Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard–earned graduate degrees—all to forge unconventional lives as modern–day…

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: TheMathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematicalwork of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the…

A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.

A Brilliant Madness is a PBS American Experience documentary on the life of mathematician John Nash. It first aired April 28, 2002, and was produced by Randall MacLowry and directed…

Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern (2011) examines the life of a remarkable mathematician whose formidable mathematical contributions were matched by an approach and vision that helped…

For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem—the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions.…