Movie Genre: Mathematics

The Prichard Scale of Understanding Poetry is a simple formula that measures the greatness of a poem. This formula appears in the movie "Dead Poets Society" from 1989. The film…

Young Spock learns Math. He memorizes the formula (4pi/3) r^3 for the volume of the sphere, the square root of 2396324, and the definition of dimensionality log(n)/log(d).

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America’s president Lincoln talks about Euclid’s notion: things are equal to an everyday item similar to each other.

Here are just a few short clips from the movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. They are the parts where some mathematics is involved. There is a scene about the…

A simple insurance equation is appearing in the movie “Fight Club”, which is probably on everybody’s list of top 100 films.

The original screenplay for Interstellar was actually developed by a physicist at Caltech named Kip Thorne, who has been studying the mathematical properties of wormholes for nearly thirty years.

What is the chance to draw an ace in a randomly shuffled card deck of 52? There is one chance in a million for a plane to crash and for…

In the movie "Avengers End Game (2019)," there is a lovely scene about the Moebius strip. It is interesting as what is said there could all be made perfect sense.

Peter Brand uses equations and statistics to analyze baseball players’ value. People are overlooked for various reasons: age, appearance, and personality, and mathematics cuts right through this bias.

Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to turn their work into a military weapon, they decide to…