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Girls who fell in love with Math (2017) – Career profiles of mathematicians Sun-Yung Alice Chang and Fan Chung. [2] [3] Hidden Figures (2016) – African-American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are featured in this film about the early years of the NASA Project Mercury and racial and sexual segregation.
This category is intended to contain films which either feature mathematicians or have some mathematical content. See also the categories Fictional mathematicians , Fiction about cryptography , Films about educators , and Biographical films about mathematicians
Travelling Salesman is a 2012 intellectual thriller film about four mathematicians who solve the P versus NP problem, one of the most challenging mathematical problems in history. The title refers to the travelling salesman problem, an optimization problem that acts like a key to solving other difficult mathematical problems. It has been proven ...
An upcoming book and movie both entitled Hidden Figures tell the story of NASA's female African-American mathematicians back in the 1960's. Johnson was one of those women who served as the space ...
Time's All-Time 100 Movies is a list compiled by Time magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of Time was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled. [1]
Documentary films about mathematicians (2 P) Pages in category "Biographical films about mathematicians" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Fermat's Room (Spanish: La habitación de Fermat) is a 2007 Spanish thriller film directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña.Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great enigma, and told to use pseudonyms based on famous historical mathematicians.