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VideoMath Festival

An International Video Festival at The International Congress of Mathematicians 1998

The VideoMath festival is being held on the occasion of ICM’98, the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. It is the first festival dedicated to videos concerning mathematics. The videos were selected by an international jury in a worldwide competition. They target a general audience interested in popular science, mathematical topics, and applications of mathematics in everyday life.

This reel comprises the 24 winners of the worldwide VideoMath competition. The entries have been selected by the jury on basis … Ler mais

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N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

The story of a wandering mathematician obsessed with unsolved problems

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. — Sir Isaac Newton

A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in … Ler mais