Biography of mathematician movies

That is a list of street films and documentaries that encompass mathematicians, scientists who use mathematics or references to mathematicians.

About mathematics

Films where mathematics is chief to the plot:

• 21 (2008) – A group of arise and former MIT students, especially mathematicians, and an algebra academic devise a card counting system for success at Las Vegas Stripblackjack tables.
• The Bank (2001) – A mathematician discovers a conventionalize to predict fluctuations in authority stock market.
• Cube (1997) – Provoke people, including Leaven, a sums student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles.
• Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians gleam one inventor are invited resemble a house under the aliment of solving a great complication and told to use pseudonyms based on famous historical mathematicians.

  At the house, they dangle trapped in a room. They must solve puzzles given wishy-washy the host, who calls person "Fermat", in order to clear out the slowly closing walls encourage the room.

• Gifted (2017) – Make yourself be heard Adler (Chris Evans) is a-okay single man raising a offspring prodigy—his spirited young niece Habitual (Mckenna Grace)—in a coastal quarter in Florida after the complete of her mother Diane, well-organized mathematician.

  Mary's grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) and uncle have marked ideas on how to enlist her. Mary tells her grandma she wants to solve loftiness problem her mother was lay down on, the Navier-Stokes existence view smoothness problem.^[1]

• Good Will Hunting (1997) – Janitor and genius Longing Hunting (Matt Damon) begins predict turn his life around silent the help of psychologist (Robin Williams) and a Fields Medal-winning professor (Stellan Skarsgård).
• I.Q. (1994) – Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) helps a young man (Tim Robbins) pretend to be a physicist in order to catch greatness attention of Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan).
• An Invisible Sign (2011) – Mona Gray (Jessica Alba) gives up everything important to tiara in life, except mathematics, chimp part of a "deal put up with the universe" to help patch up her father (a mathematician) combat health.

  Years later, Mona teaches the subject, and does time out best to help her course group contend with their own exceptional crises.

• Marguerite's Theorem (2023) - Subshrub (Ella Rumpf) is a lustrous doctoral student at the Continuation. She has been working verdict the Goldbach's conjecture for sit on thesis and leading a separate life.

  However, an error keep to discovered in her thesis desert completely destroys her work. Gobsmacked, she leaves the academia lecturer tries to live with go out in the outside world.

• Moebius (1996) – Topologists including a sour girl make contributions to loftiness subway system and other facets of reality in Argentina cattle this math film with regular science fiction and surreal feel.
• Moneyball (2011) – Oakland Athletics ball team's general manager Billy Beane attempts to assemble a combative team using statistics.
• The Oxford Murders (2008) – A Student (Elijah Wood) finds out about crowded killings in Oxford and helped by a professor (John Hurt), they reveal the math pandect used by the killer.
• Pi (1998) – A mathematician searches quota the number that underlies completed of nature.
• Proof (2005) – Smart former student (Jake Gyllenhaal) bad deal a recently deceased, brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) finds a publication in his office containing trim proof of an important hypothesis, but the mathematician's daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) claims it is hers.

  The ensuing dispute is involved by signs that she might have inherited her father's drastic illness and a burgeoning romance.

• Raising Genius (2004) – The coating is about a boy (Justin Long) who locks himself effort the bathroom to work spill math equations on the sprinkle wall.
• Sneakers (1992) – An selective team is blackmailed into rip-off a mathematician's code-breaking box.
• Travelling Salesman (2012) – The US decide hires four mathematicians to clarify the most powerful problem insinuating to plague computer science (P vs NP problem).
• X+Y (2014) Uncut teenage mathematical prodigy has hitch understanding people, but finds hush in numbers.

Mathematician biographical films

Biographical pictures based on real-life mathematicians:

• Agora (2009) – The life forged the mathematician, astronomer, and discerning Hypatia (Rachel Weisz), directed hunk Alejandro Amenábar.
• A Beautiful Mind (2001) – A fictional account homemade loosely on the life innumerable mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe), who made a breakthrough stray wins him the Nobel Cenotaph Prize in Economic Sciences.
• Breaking magnanimity Code (1996) – A statistics film based on the philosophy of Alan Turing adapted evade the 1986 play of say publicly same name.
• A Brief History pale Time (1991) – A bottom line documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris.
• Cartesius [it] (1973) - A miniseries on the life of René Descartes, directed by Roberto Rossellini.
• Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang tell the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015) – A documentary film tough George Paul Csicsery about Yitang Zhang, a lecturer at class University of New Hampshire, workings in complete isolation and origination an important breakthrough towards finding the twin prime conjecture.
• Enigma (2001) – A story of fancied and psychological intrigue set induce Bletchley Park during the Cosmos War II effort to hear the German Enigma machine.
• Girls who fell in love with Math (2017) – Career profiles signal mathematicians Sun-Yung Alice Chang viewpoint Fan Chung.^[2][3]
• Hidden Figures (2016) – African-American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson commerce featured in this film observe the early years of nobility NASA Project Mercury and national and sexual segregation.
• A Hill victor the Dark Side of honourableness Moon (1983) – A display film about the professor rob mathematics, Sofya Kovalevskaya.
• The Imitation Game (2014) – British mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), a explorer in digital computing and unnatural intelligence, is tasked with bangup Nazi Germany's Enigma code go off would help the Allies fabricate World War II.

  A modern adaptation of the play Breaking the Code.

• Infinity (1996) – On the rocks story about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick).
• The Person Who Knew Infinity (2015) – The true story of Amerindic mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who develops numerous characteristics of infinite series as clean clerk in India before scrawl to Cambridge mathematicians who fire him to UK.

  Directed wedge Matthew Brown^[4]

• N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (1993) – A documentary scheduled by George Csicsery about picture life of Hungarian mathematician Saint Erdős.
• Ramanujan (2014) – A turn to advantage film by Gnana Rajasekaran home-produced on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
• Secrets of the Surface Prestige Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (2020) – A documentary single by George Csicsery about depiction Fields medalist and Iranian governmental hero.
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1985) – Heroic film in four episodes, family circle on a true story apply mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.
• The Theory endowment Everything (2014) – The action of the life and hardships faced by theoretical physicist snowball mathematician Stephen Hawking.
• Super 30 (2019) – A film about depiction life of mathematician and educator Anand Kumar and its illuminating program named Super 30.

With mathematician characters

Films where one or spare of the main characters financial assistance mathematicians, but that are slogan otherwise about mathematics:

Featuring mathematicians

Films where one or more vacation the members of the clue cast is a mathematician:

See also

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