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.

As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty a...

Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slop...

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of h...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...
A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem features a heroine driven by the quest to solve one of th...

Documentary about an African-American girl who grows up to help NASA put astronauts into space and b...

Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in...

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines ...

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for ...

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10...

What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden j...

A BBC documentary uncovers, for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecast the da...
The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s ...
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Math...

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a p...

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential serie...

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret...

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Int...