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NOVA: The Great Math Mystery (2015) [NR]

Release Date:
April 15, 2015

Original Title:
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Alternate Titles:
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
The Great Math Mystery
数学大迷思

Genres:
Documentary | History | Mystery

Production Companies:
GBH

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U  US: NR 

Runtime: 54

Overview from TheMovieDB

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?

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Production

Animation Director:
Ekin Akalin

Art Direction:
Leanne Dare

Assistant Editor:
Elliott Choi

Associate Producer:
Cara Feinberg
Karinna Sjo-Gaber

Camera Operator:
Colin Clarke
Thomas Danielczik
Gary Henoch
Stephen McCarthy

Director:
Dan McCabe
Richard Reisz

Editor:
Dan McCabe
Guy Tetzner
Brian Truglio

Executive Producer:
Chris Schmidt

Original Music Composer:
Matt Norman

Producer:
Dan McCabe
Richard Reisz

Production Coordinator:
Linda Callahan

Production Manager:
George Hodges

Production Office Assistant:
Farley Crawford
Jon Gregory
Danny Morgan
Abigail McCabe

Sound Recordist:
Glenn Berkovitz
Steve Bores
Mike Duffield
Peter Eason
David Keene
Caleb Mose
Ben Turney

Supervising Producer:
Kevin Young

Writer:
Dan McCabe

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