Video Genre: Mathematics

Co-produced by the BBC and presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy, this miniseries covers such subjects as the invention of zero and the Riemann hypothesis, the contributions of great…

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…

When France surrendered in 1940, and German soldiers showed up in the Vosgian village of Housseras, an unknown French foot soldier burned his papers and killed himself in a farmer’s…

The movie is divided into four chapters, each of about 15 minutes.The first contains the basic concepts: the formalization of braids, the group structure on the braids’ set, and the…

Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world’s toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). It is the…

Beautiful Young Minds was a documentary first shown at the BRITDOC Festival on 26 July 2007. The documentary follows the selection process and training for the U.K. team to compete in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)…

From Jos Leys, Étienne Ghys and Aurélien Alvarez, the makers of Dimensions, comes CHAOS, a math movie with nine 13-minute chapters. It is a film about dynamical systems, the butterfly effect and chaos theory,…

A one-hour biographical documentary, Julia Robinson and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem tells the story of an important American mathematician against a background of mathematical ideas. Julia Robinson (1919 – 1985), a…

Dimensions is a walk through mathematics! Nine chapters, two hours of math documentary, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension.