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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.
Since 1993 (when Andrew Wiles first claimed to have proven Fermat's Last Theorem), there have been several feature films about mathematicians, notably Good Will Hunting (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Proof (2005), Travelling Salesman (2012), The Imitation Game (2014), and Gifted (2017). In 2006, mathematician Daniel Ullman wrote: "Of [the ...
A genius mathematician, Lee Hak-sung, defects from North Korea in pursuit of academic freedom. To conceal his identity and past, he takes on the role of a security guard at an elite private high school, where only the top 1% of gifted students are admitted. With his cold and stern demeanor, Hak-sung becomes the most avoided figure on campus.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [ 1 ]
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
X+Y British film poster Directed by Morgan Matthews Written by James Graham Produced by David M. Thompson Laura Hastings-Smith Starring Asa Butterfield Rafe Spall Sally Hawkins Eddie Marsan Jo Yang Cinematography Danny Cohen Edited by Peter Lambert Music by Martin Phipps Production companies BBC Films British Film Institute Head Gear Films Metrol Technology Screen Yorkshire Lipsync Productions ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...
Mathematically gifted, Majorana began his university studies in engineering in 1923, but switched to physics in 1928 at the urging of Emilio Segrè. [ 7 ] : 69–72 He was very young when he joined Enrico Fermi 's team in Rome as one of the " Via Panisperna boys ", who took their name from the street address of their laboratory.