Saturday, December 19, 2009

Mathematics in Movies and TV


Mathematics in Movies

Oliver Knill, of the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, hosts a huge collection of clips from television and movies in which math appears. The clips range from Stand and Deliver (calculus) to the The Simpsons (Bart visualizing word problems). Best of all, you can play all the clips at the website in either flash version (.swf) or watch the quicktime file (.m4v).