1994 KFWB ( 1961 for up to signs indicated knowing safety accountant who comes to save a family farm. He calculates on his fingers and by stamping his feet: A who won't add his own numbers ain't much of a book. Act Your Age IMDB Unintentionally hilarious morality short. gets frustrated with some simultaneous equations, and starts carving his initials into the school desk. Actually, it's hard to blame him: the equations are 3x+4y+3z =14x+y 2+z=16 and y+3z=6, with solution x=244, y=−156, z=118. the Great IMDB Quick 1-liner from about learning logic and mathematics at the feet of while his father hogs the of conquest. Agora IMDB Turgid telling of the story of Hypatia. Lots of loony Christians, but not much maths. Hypatia's father, Theon of appears. There's some conics and some musing over planetary motion, and a good scene where Hypatia draws ellipse the sand. This is used as a metaphor, indicating what have been lost by Hypatia's murder. All IMDB A silly poker movie, with a few nonsensical percentages thrown to make it sound plausible. All Quiet on the Front IMDB Very odd little scene, with a soldier at the front entertaining himself by learning the formula for the sum of arithmetic series. IMDB A teacher talks of the beauty and usefulness of maths. Extended classroom scene on right triangles, and extended scene on Millay's famous poem: Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare. Angels Demons IMDB Ambigrams are a theme the movie, and there's a bit of number mysticism centred on 503. to the Infinite Power IMDB A child prodigy turns out to be the clone of infinite physicist. A pretty funny scene, where the music turns out to be able to calculate cube roots. Another Movie IMDB The things we have to watch for this webpage! Andy fantasises having during a maths class with his teacher, Mr. Puckov. Averting our eyes, we noticed the surface integrals on the blackboard behind them. Apocalypse IMDB Dennis Hopper tries to explain Brando to Sheen: This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics, one through nine. No maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel space, you can't go out into space, you know, without like you know, uh, with fractions. What are you gonna land on? 1, 3? Clip on Knill's Apollo 13 IMDB A slide rule appears one scene, when Mission Control checks Lovell's gimbal conversions. Apparently this is not a blooper, despite some such claims. Slide rules are pointless for addition and subtraction, but there is more to the gimbal calcualtions than that. Llewellyn was the real life slide rule guy, and claims he did use a slide rule for such calculations. Are You With It? IMDB O'Connor plays Milton Haskins, actuary who misplaces a decimal point, and despondently quits to become a carny. Some very funny bits, with Milton doing instantaneous calculations with a slide rule. He determines when a poker machine pay off as a simple problem arithmetical progressions on the second winning play a combination had been reached, equal to the square root of 322 million raised to the 11th power one more play should produce the Johnpot. Milton also explains that dancing is merely a question of applied mathematics: he demonstrates, with 3 times 2 times 2, leading to a terrific tapdancing routine. Clip on our maths clips Atama-yama IMDB Weird cartoon, culminating with a having his smaller self sitting on his head, infinite descending sequence. Au hasard Balthazar IMDB The main character is a donkey. He becomes a circus act, and correctly calculates 834 x 3. Au Revoir Enfants IMDB A teacher discusses the fact that a quadrilateral circumscribed around a circle, the sum of two opposite sides is equal to the sum of two remaining sides. The Aviator IMDB Hughes passes off a meteorologist as a mathematician to a censorship board objecting to Hughes's movie. The mathematician uses calipers to prove that 's décolleté is consistent with that of other movie stars. Bachelor of Hearts IMDB A sweet comedy about a student who visits to study mathematics, and finds beer and romance. He tries to become first wrangler There's some maths around the edges. Ball of Fire IMDB Fun movie about a team of stuffy academics being charmed by Stanwyck. When is raised, she refers to herself as just another apple. The mathematician tries to find the common denominator of her syncopated dance moves, and argues from relativity that the signpost