NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Not Rated
2015•54 min•DocumentaryHistoryMystery
Wokeness Score: 0.0/10Not Woke

Woke Reasons

No wokeness reasons yet. Be the first to rate!
DocumentaryHistoryMystery
0 Reviews
NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. But where does math get its power? Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, follows math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind's clever trick or the language of the universe?
Sign in to unlock reactions and edit your reviews. Sign in

Submit Your Review

1 = "Not Woke"10 = "Very Woke"

More Like This

UFO
Not yet rated

UFO

Science FictionThrillerMystery

2018

A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.

0 reviews
Fermat's Room
Not yet rated

Fermat's Room

MysteryThriller

2007

Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.

0 reviews
Proof
Not yet rated

Proof

DramaMystery

2005

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

0 reviews
Cube 2: Hypercube
Not yet rated

Cube 2: Hypercube

ThrillerScience FictionMystery

2002

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

0 reviews
Cube Zero
Not yet rated

Cube Zero

MysteryScience FictionThriller

2004

A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.

0 reviews
Cube
Not yet rated

Cube

ThrillerScience FictionMystery

1998

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

0 reviews
Pi
Not yet rated

Pi

MysteryDramaThriller

1998

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

0 reviews
Marguerite's Theorem
Not yet rated

Marguerite's Theorem

DramaMystery

2023

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.

0 reviews