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  2. List of films about mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    The Bank (2001) – A mathematician discovers a formula to predict fluctuations in the stock market. Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a math student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles. Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great ...

  3. Hidden Figures - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Stand and Deliver - Wikipedia

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    Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]

  5. Category:Biographical films about mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    A Beautiful Mind (film) Breaking the Code (film) A Brief History of Time (film)

  6. Danica McKellar - Wikipedia

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    1. Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) [ 1 ] is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She is best known for playing Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years. McKellar has appeared in various television films for the Hallmark Channel. She has also done voice acting, including Frieda Goren in ...

  7. Agora (film) - Wikipedia

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    Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.

  8. The Signal (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $2.42 million [2][3] The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank, written by William and Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio, and starring Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 13, 2014.

  9. Category:Films about mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Colossus: The Forbin Project. Conceiving Ada. Cube (1997 film) Cube (film series) Cube 2: Hypercube. Cube Zero.