Mathematics Movies

A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime...

Four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees...

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known...

A high school teenager named Ibo has a dream of becoming a professional soccer player. However, Ibo's dream of becoming a professional footballer did...

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

Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or the beauty of the human body....

Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the...

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and...

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...

A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

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

Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he...

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's...

Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With...

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a...

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

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 Division...

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...