Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind: to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries.
A BBC documentary uncovers, for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecast the da...
Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slop...
Documentary about an African-American girl who grows up to help NASA put astronauts into space and b...
Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...
Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10...
In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a p...
The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for ...
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem features a heroine driven by the quest to solve one of th...
Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines ...
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Math...
What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden j...
Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in...
A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty a...
The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret...