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Prime Target
TV Show 2025

Prime Target

A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a government agent to unravel a high-stakes conspiracy.

Marguerite's Theorem
1h 54m
Movie 2023

Marguerite's Theorem

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

In Our Prime
1h 57m
Movie 2022

In Our Prime

Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.

A Trip to Infinity
1h 19m
Movie 2022

A Trip to Infinity

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.

The Last Night of Galois
0h 14m
Movie 2025

The Last Night of Galois

On a spring night in the early 1800s, a brilliant young mathematician delivers his spiritual testament to history. The boy is in his twenties, his heart is seething with revolutionary fervor, a groundbreaking theory is on his mind, he loves an already committed woman, and in the aftermath he will challenge a sharpshooter to a duel. A short film based on a true story that traces the anguished and romantic last night of Évariste Galois.

Melancholia
1h 6m
TV Show 2021

Melancholia

A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.

Journey into Maths Country
0h 10m
TV Show 2021

Journey into Maths Country

Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we also find epic landscapes, dizzying ideas and even, sometimes, useful things!

Lion Pride
1h 30m
TV Show 2017

Lion Pride

Two teachers hold polar opposite viewpoints about teaching and life. Wang Qiang-Da is a genius Professor of Mathematics who approaches everything in front of him with logic and reasoning. Wang Qiang-Wei is a history teacher, art appraiser and “Dorothy” on “Sophie’s Midnight Sky” radio program. She cares about the love of learning and making people happy around her. Qiang-Da and Qiang-Wei are brought together during a crime bust for the “Black Ghost” which goes wrong. Both end up teaching at Chang Tai Tutorial Classes and helping Prosecutor Tie Bu-Fan solve cases.

Decoded
0h 45m
TV Show 2016

Decoded

A math genius gets recruited by Chinese spy agency to crack a complex coded message in the early republican era.

Climate Change By The Numbers
TV Show 2015

Climate Change By The Numbers

Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken.

Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen
0h 25m
Movie 2020

Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen

Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in Yokohama, KenKen was born. Enter a world where puzzles matter. From Tokyo to New York, from the classroom to the puzzle page to the tournament floor, Miyamoto and the Machine takes you into the brain of the inventor and the players, all while the machines of business and technology crash into artistry and humanity. Miyamoto believes each handcrafted puzzle tells a story, and if you look hard enough between the rows, columns, and cages of KenKen, you can find the story of the sensei who started a global phenomenon.

The Art of Life
0h 39m
Movie 2019

The Art of Life

As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. He went on a grand adventure to unify his Buddhism with his ability to see an expanded view of reality. He created beauty in a place where nobody else would, and made his friends amongst dolphins.

Outlier: the story of Katherine Johnson
0h 56m
Movie 2019

Outlier: the story of Katherine Johnson

Documentary about an African-American girl who grows up to help NASA put astronauts into space and bring them home safely. She was one of the main characters in the movie, "Hidden Figures." Includes interview with Johnson.

Super 30
2h 33m
Movie 2019

Super 30

Based on life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for financially weak IIT aspirants in Patna.

1953 – The Outlawed
0h 13m
Movie 2018

1953 – The Outlawed

1953 – The Outlawed centers on the last part of Alan Turing’s life, traveling to Greece to study morphological regularity in nature while his body is being altered by an enforced hormonal treatment. The agonizing surgical incision that is a narrative hinge in the film, slashes into the convulsed boundary between laws and transgressions, natural and technological becomings: a cut that does not separate politics and bodies but complicates the forms in which they crossbreed.

The Warning
1h 32m
Movie 2018

The Warning

Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.

Girls Who Fell in Love with Math
1h 15m
Movie 2017

Girls Who Fell in Love with Math

The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s and dreamt of pursuing math.

Numb3rs
0h 45m
TV Show 2005

Numb3rs

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

The Man Who Knew Infinity
1h 48m
Movie 2016

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms
0h 59m
Movie 2015

The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data security - they even help us travel the world, find love and save lives. Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. By showing us some of the algorithms most essential to our lives, he reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even programme themselves.

The Genius of George Boole
0h 59m
Movie 2015

The Genius of George Boole

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and industry leaders from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s greatest unsung heroes.

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
0h 57m
Movie 2015

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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.

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