Math Videos in UBC Open Collections
- BIRS Workshop Lecture VideosThe Banff International Research Station (BIRS, http://www.birs.ca/) is a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists. The BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos are primary research data in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.
Films
- Colors of mathCall Number: QA8.4 .C646 2012 dvd"To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it and be touched by it...." -- Container.
- Do the +mathCall Number: QC903 .D6 2013 dvdA documentary chronicling American environmentalist Bill McKibben's efforts to build a movement to challenge the fossil fuel industry and to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis.
- Hidden FiguresCall Number: onlineAs the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history.
- The Imitation GameCall Number: onlineDuring World War II, English mathematician, Alan Turing, tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.
- Man who knew infinityCall Number: onlineGrowing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy.
- MatildaCall Number: onlineAn intelligent girl who is neglected by her parents discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Not until a teacher shows her kindness for the first time does she realize that she can use those powers to do something about her sufferings.
- Mean girlsCall Number: onlineHome-schooled Cady is a 15-year-old who is entering public high school for the first time. Trying to find her place among jocks, mathletes and other subcultures, Cady crosses paths with the meanest species of them all - Regina, The Queen Bee, the leader of the school's most fashionable clique, The Plastics.
- MoneyballCall Number: onlineA baseball general manager reinvents the Oakland A's by employing unorthodox scouting methods that initially make him a laughingstock in the major leagues.