NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
2015 | 54m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Dan McCabe, Richard Reisz |
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| Writer: | Dan McCabe |
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| 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? | |
| Release Date: | Apr 15, 2015 |
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| Director: | Dan McCabe, Richard Reisz |
| Writer: | Dan McCabe |
| Genres: | Mystery, History, Documentary |
| Keywords | mathematics |
| Production Companies | GBH |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
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| Name | Character |
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| Jay O. Sanders | Narrator (voice) |
| Glenn Kalison | Actor |
| Max Tegmark | Self |
| Esperanza Spalding | Self |
| Sylvester James Gates | Self |
| Adam Steltzner | Self |
| Janna Levin | Self |
| Simon Schaffer | Self |
| Savas Dimopoulos | Self |
| Roger Penrose | Self |
| Stephen Wolfram | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Danny Morgan | Production Office Assistant |
| Dan McCabe | Writer, Editor, Director |
| Colin Clarke | Camera Operator |
| Thomas Danielczik | Camera Operator |
| Gary Henoch | Camera Operator |
| Richard Reisz | Director |
| Guy Tetzner | Editor |
| Brian Truglio | Editor |
| Stephen McCarthy | Camera Operator |
| Glenn Berkovitz | Sound Recordist |
| Steve Bores | Sound Recordist |
| Mike Duffield | Sound Recordist |
| Peter Eason | Sound Recordist |
| David Keene | Sound Recordist |
| Caleb Mose | Sound Recordist |
| Ben Turney | Sound Recordist |
| Ekin Akalin | Animation Director |
| Leanne Dare | Art Direction |
| George Hodges | Production Manager |
| Elliott Choi | Assistant Editor |
| Farley Crawford | Production Office Assistant |
| Jon Gregory | Production Office Assistant |
| Abigail McCabe | Production Office Assistant |
| Linda Callahan | Production Coordinator |
| Matt Norman | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Dan McCabe | Producer |
| Richard Reisz | Producer |
| Chris Schmidt | Executive Producer |
| Cara Feinberg | Associate Producer |
| Karinna Sjo-Gaber | Associate Producer |
| Kevin Young | Supervising Producer |
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