
NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing...

Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, t...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...

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

What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time ...

Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehist...
Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's...

Brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friends...

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-197...

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that ...

Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of kno...

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