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 mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthrough toward solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group, and a further innovation by James Maynard.
Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Ma...
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In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Des...
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2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep...
As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...
Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of kno...
Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10...
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech rom...
Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slop...
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...
In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. ...