MathFilm 2008 Videorolle | 60 Min. | |
Eine Kollektion faszinierender mathematischer Kurzfilme. Diese Highlights der mathematischen Visualisierung sind für ein wissenschaftlich interessiertes Publikum produziert worden. Die Filme erläutern Themen aus der Schulmathematik, zeigen Simulationen von realen Phänomenen und führen anschaulich bis hin zur aktuellen Forschung in der reinen und angewandten Mathematik. |
Der Beweis (2006) | 100 Min | |
An ihrem 27. Geburtstag bricht über Catherine (G. Paltrow) ein emotionales Gewitter herein: Der Tod ihres Vaters (A. Hopkins), eines brillanten, aber in geistige Umnachtung verfallenen Mathematikprofessors, und die Entdeckung eines sensationellen mathematischen Beweises. Catherine behauptet, dass der Beweis von ihr stamme. Hat Catherine die Genialität ihres Vaters geerbt oder womöglich dessen Krankheit? |
The Colours of Infinity (1996) | 52 Min | |
Arthur C. Clarke präsentiert eine ungewöhnliche Dokumentation über die Entdeckung der Mandelbrot-Menge in der spektakulären Welt der Fraktalgeometrie. Mandelbrot bemerkte 1980, dass eine sehr einfache Gleichung zu einem unglaublich komplizierten und schönen geometrischen Gebilde führen kann. |
Porridge Pulleys and Pi (2004) | 29 Min | |
Ein Portrait von George Csicsery über zwei sehr unterschiedliche Mathematiker: Vaughan Jones, Gewinner der Fields-Medaille, Knotenexperte und aktiver Windsurfer, und Hendrik Lenstra, Zahlentheoretiker mit einer Passion für Homer. |
Flatland | 34 Min | |
Ein computeranimierter Film nach dem berühmten Roman von Edwin A. Abbott. In einer zweidimensionalen Welt spielt die Geschichte von Arthur Square und seiner neugierigen Enkelin Hex. Als ein geheimnisvoller Besucher aus der dritten Dimension eintrifft, gerät Hex in Größte Gefahr - aber da ist noch ihr Mathematiker-Großvater. |
Zorn's Lemma (1970, englisch) | 60 Min | |
Ein bemerkenswerter Experimentalfilm des Avantgarde-Filmemachers Hollis Frampton. Der Film beginnt mit einer dunklen Leinwand und einer weiblichen Stimme, die aus einem alten Schultextbuch die Buchstaben des Alphabets nach Bibelstellen vorliest. Der Rest des Films besteht aus immer wiederkehrenden und sich doch nie wiederholenden Bildsequenzen. Ein faszinierendes, fast hypnotisches Filmerlebnis. |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) | 135 min | |
Nobel Prize winner John Nash touches paranoia after his revolutionary ideas in game theory. Psychology and recovery of a great mathematician. | ||
Arabesques and Geometry (1999) | 21 min | |
The authors of this film explain the topic of symmetry in mathematics with examples from Islamic art. | ||
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Bubbles, Jaws, Moose Tests, and More (2005) | 90 min | |
Ever thought about how weather is predicted or experimental research is investigated on a computer?
Insight in the world of numerical mathematics. | ||
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Der versiegelte Brief des Soldaten Döblin (2006) | 86 min | |
The short and tragic life story of Wolfgang Döblin, brilliant mathematician, son of the famous german writer Alfred Döblin who fled Nazi Germany. | ||
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Early History of Mathematics (2003) | 30 min | |
The film explains with easy-accessible examples and in Tom Apostol's characteristically perfect presentation major events in the history of early mathematics. | ||
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Fermat's Last Tango (2001) | 100 min | |
A musical play inspired by the famous achievements of Andrew Wiles on the solution of Fermat's problem. | ||
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Fibonacci - The Pisan Leonardo (2008) | 40 min | |
A father working abroad and a son going with him. It is the XII century, that country's name is North Africa, that son going to study maths in the Arab world is Leonardo, born in Pisa in the Bonacci family (filium Bonacii). | ||
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Hard Problems (2008) | 82 min | |
The story of the American high school team at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Ljubljana in Slowenia.
Mathematical quests at highest level. | ||
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Henri Cartan, une vie de mathématicien (1995) | 52 min | |
Discussions by Jean-Pierre Serre and Isabelle Broué with the mathematician Henri Cartan and his wife Nicole, daughter of physicist Pierre Weiss. | ||
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Julia Robinson and Solving Hilbert's 10th Problem (2008) | 45 min | |
Documentary about the life of one of the most distinguished woman in mathematics, and her contributions to Hilbert's 10th problem. | ||
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Leonhard Euler: In the Scholars's Paradise (2007) | 29 min | |
Leonhard Euler was the most exceptionally gifted mathematician of the Eighteenth Century and a great figure in the history of Western culture. | ||
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Magic of Muqarnas (2005) | 18 min | |
Muqarnas - stalactite vaults - form an essential part of Islamic architecture. The relation between layout and spatial arrangement is the topic of this video. | ||
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N is a number - Paul Erdös (1993) | 57 min | |
The life of one of the most prolific mathematician is documented by George Csicsery. The highly awarded film shows living mathematics. | ||
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Not Knot (1995) | 15 min | |
This award winning animation of non-Euclidean hyperbolic space combines extraordinary techniques of computer graphics, insight into higher mathematics, and clever pedagogy to bring an understanding of fairly recent research to a broad audience. | ||
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Outside In (1995) | 22 min | |
The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. | ||
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Quarks & Co (2006) | 43 min | |
Zahlen prägen unser Leben: Ob Telefonnummern, Pincodes, Wahlergebnisse oder die statistische Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass morgen die Sonne scheint. | ||
Stand and Deliver (1988) | 102 min | |
A true story of a dedicated high school teacher, teaching calculus against all odds at an East Los Angeles High School. | ||
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The CMI Millennium Meeting (2002) | 60 min | |
This video provides a portrait of CMI, its culture and the people behind it. F. Tisseyre captures the spirit of the event without the imposition of a narrator, using only voice-over commentary taken from interviews and speeches. | ||
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The Colours of Infinity (1995) | 52 min | |
Documentary by Arthur C. Clarke on the discovery of the Mandelbrot set. The film includes spectacular visualizations from the world of fractals. | ||
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The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher (2001) | 55 min | |
Almost everyone will know M.C. Escher, the famous Dutch artist. Michele Emmer's film explores this relationship and uses the possibilities of this medium to full extent to show spectacular examples of Escher's work. | ||
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The Importance of Mathematics (2002) | 60 min | |
This video is a lucid, dynamic presentation of the deep and important question of the relevance of mathematics to society, delivered by one of the best mathematicians of the modern age. | ||
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The Millennium Prize Problems. A Lecture by John Tate (2002) | 60 min | |
Tate describes in his lecture three Millennium Prize Problems: the Riemann Hypothesis, the Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, and the "P=NP?" problem. | ||
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| The Millennium Prize Problems. A Lecture by Michael Atiyah (2002) | 60 min |
Atiyah's lecture discusses four of the Millennium Problems and places them in context. | ||
The New Shepherd's Lamp (1995) | 30 min | |
Astronomy and celestial mechanics always initiated great breakthroughs in the development of science and mathematics. The authors of the film describe these developments starting with Ptolemy and ending with contemporary satellite-steering techniques. | ||
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Touching Soap Films (1995) | 41 min | |
The young boy Kalle explores the palace of soap bubbles and minimal surfaces in an amusing story.
Unprecedented computer animations. | ||
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Turning a Sphere Inside Out (2004) | 23 min | |
Turning a Sphere Inside Out is about the problem of turning a sphere inside out by passing the surface through itself without making any holes or creases. | ||
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Video and Multimedia at 3ecm (2000) | 90 min | |
Following the success of the video festival at ICM '98, Springer-Verlag offers another video festival publication - this time of the 3rd European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona, July 2000. | ||
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VideoMath-Festival at ICM '98 (1998) | 82 min | |
Best-selling collection of winners of the VideoMath Festival 1998 was presented at the international congress of mathematicians 1998 in Berlin. | ||
Wolfgang Döblin - Ein Mathematiker wird wiederentdeckt (2006) | 55 min | |
A film by Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems about Wolfgang Döblin, the genius son of writer Alfred Döblin, and the story of a sealed letter with the manuscript about the equation of Kolmogorov, that he wrote to the academy shortly before his death. | ||
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Leonhard
Euler; Im Paradies der Gelehrten Ein Film von Wladimir Velminski |
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Fermat's last room |
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Hidden Figures (Unbekannte Heldinnen) |
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