Archive for the ‘Math movies’ Category

Bush only just scraped through the 2000 election. What really happened? And what happened to keep the Bush team in power through the 2004 election? This disturbing documentary is about the fundamental math of democracy - correct, honest and incorruptible counting.

Archimedes left behind some amazing inventions and mathematical discoveries. In 1991, historians determined that a Medieval prayer book actually contains previously unknown writings by Archimedes.

This week's movie is a representation of a 5-dimensional space acted on by 5-D forces.

This week's movie contains stuff you never knew you could do on Google - and a mathematical meaning of life.

As today is Pi Day, the featured movie this week is the movie Pi.

Here's a restful yet inspiring movie featuring fractals and great music.

This movie is a good demonstration of powers of 10 and scientific notation.

The abacus is still widely used in Japan. It's one method of making math more kinesthetic - and it's often faster than a calculator.

Arthur Benjamin performs some impressive mental math tricks in the week's math video.

This week's movie is a simulated computer animation of the Sep 11 attack on the WTC twin towers.