This article is the first in an ongoing series, Science at the Cinema, that explores research and researchers portrayed in film. “The Imitation Game,” nominated for eight Academy Awards, details the ...

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A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Naples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having ...

John Houbolt...the guy who came up with the concept of taking three spacecraft to the Moon; the command/service module, a lunar lander, and a lunar ascent module. All of these things would dock, ...

It can be easy to think that you need math only to do your algebra or geometry homework or if you have a job as an engineer. But, in fact, math pops up everywhere – even in the soap bubbles in your ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author’s father, Luciano Emmer, was an Italian filmmaker who made feature movies and documentaries on art from the 1930s through 2008, one ...