- List of films about mathematicians
This is a list of feature films that include a mathematician (or scientist who uses a lot of math) as one of the main characters.
* "
To Sir, with Love " (1967) - Engineer Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier ) becomes a teacher.
* "Straw Dogs " (1971) - David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman ) is an American mathematical physicist who moves to England, where he and his wife are violently harassed by locals.
* "It's My Turn " (1980) - A mathematics professor (Jill Clayburgh ) falls in love with her father's bride's son (Michael Douglas ).
* "Stand and Deliver " (1988) - Based on the true story of math teacherJaime Escalante , who inspired the students in a school in a Hispanic neighborhood.
* "Sneakers" (1992) - An eclectic team is assembled to steal a code-breaking box developed by a rogue mathematician.
* "Jurassic Park" (1993) - A mathematician (Jeff Goldblum ) is among those invited to a theme park with cloned dinosaurs, in order to assess its safety.
* "I.Q." (1994) -Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau ) helps a young man (Tim Robbins ) pretend to be a physicist in order to catch the attention of Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan ).
* "Antonia's Line " (1995) - A genealogical "line" of five generations of women includes a child prodigy, Thérèse, who grows up to be a mathematician.
* "Infinity" (1996) - A story aboutNobel Prize -winning physicistRichard Feynman (Matthew Broderick ).
* "The Mirror Has Two Faces " (1996) - A math professor (Jeff Bridges ) marries a literature professor (Barbra Streisand ), but they want different things from the relationship.
* "Good Will Hunting " (1997) - Janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon ) begins to turn his life around with the help of a psychologist (Robin Williams ) and aFields Medal -winning professor (Stellan Skarsgård ).
* "" (1997) - Mathematician Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum ) travels to an auxiliary Jurassic Park site to document dinosaurs.
* "Pi" (1998) - A mathematician searches for the number that underlies all of nature.
* "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) - A fictional account based loosely on the life of mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe ), who made a breakthrough that wins him the Nobel Prize in economics.
* "Enigma" (2001) - A story of romantic and psychological intrigue set inBletchley Park during theWorld War II effort to crack the German Enigma machine.
* "21 Grams " (2003) - An accident changes many lives, including that of a critically ill mathematics professor (Sean Penn ).
* "Proof" (2005) - A former student (Jake Gyllenhaal ) of a recently deceased, brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins ) finds a notebook in his office containing a proof of an important theorem, but the mathematician's daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow ) claims it is hers. The ensuing dispute is complicated by signs that she may have inherited her father's mental illness and a burgeoning romance.
* "Raising Genius " (2004) - The film is about a boy (Justin Long ) who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall.
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