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 of their mathematical relevance, technical quality, and artistic imagination. The themes include problems in topology and geometry and their recent solutions, as well as visualizations of classical ideas of Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Pythagoras, and Fibonacci. Topics from high school mathematics and applications of modern numerical methods to real world simulations are addressed.
The videos target a general scientific audience interested in mathematical topics and their visualization. They are useful for initiating discussions, and to stimulate further research. The VideoMath collection is eminently suitable for school and university instruction. It provides an entertaining and informative look into current research into pure, applied and didactic mathematics.
A Collection of Mathematical Videos
Fibonacci and the Golden Mean (3:57)- The Story of Pi (3:00)
- The Law of Large Numbers (5:05)
- Vehicle Dynamics Simulation (3:00)
- Challenges in Fluid Dynamics (3:00)
- A Source of Inspiration: Spirals (4:15)
- On Archimedes’ Path (4:20)
- Geodesics and Waves (4:45)
- Mandelbloom (4:20)
- Perspectives (3:36)
- The Animation of M.C. Escher’s Belvedere (2:07)
- Meditation on Homotopy of Embedding (2:47)
- Knots Energy (3:30)
- Soap Bubbles – A Homage to Fred Almgren (2:47)
- Touching Soap Films (Excerpt) (1:10)
- Outside In (6:45)
- The Shadows of Alexandria (3:59)
- The Theorem of Pythagoras (2:15)
- The Optiverse (6:30)
- Finding a Balance (3:32)
- Homage to Hilbert (2:04)
- Evolved Virtual Creatures (3:30)
- The Topological House (1:50)
- The Shape of Space (6:30)
Long Videos
The VideoMath competition admitted only short films, but a few longer films have been selected to be presented in separate shows.
- Animato – 12 min (D) 1995
- Arabesques and Geometry – 21 min (E) 1995
- Errors aren’t forever – 24 min (GB) 1995
- Hotel Hilbert – 30 min (GB) 1996
- Law of Least Effort – 16 min (F) 1993
- N is a Number – Portrait of Paul Erdös – 57 min (USA) 1993
- Qubba for Al-Kashi – 17 min (D) 1995
- Seeing is Believing – 47 min (USA) 1998
- The new Shepherd’s Lamp – 29 min (F) 1995
