
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...

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

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

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

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

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...

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

Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehist...

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

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though...

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

A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with Computer Scientist D...

In an age when genius is a mere commodity, it is useful to look at a person who led a rich life with...

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge Universi...

Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media...

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. T...

The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or ...

On November 25, 1915, Einstein presents his famous General Theory of Relativity. Just a few years la...

The core of the video is a pedagogical workshop on the Theory of Special Relativity as part of the e...