This article is the first in an ongoing series, Science at the Cinema, that explores research and researchers portrayed in film. “The Imitation Game,” nominated for eight Academy Awards, details the ...

‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ tells the story of Stanisław Ulam, a critical figure in the development of the hydrogen bomb A young mathematician leaves his home country of Poland in the early days ...

The smartest people in the world are often featured in film, sometimes they are real, and sometimes fictional. They don't always have anything in common, either, other than being geniuses. One might ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author’s father, Luciano Emmer, was an Italian filmmaker who made feature movies and documentaries on art from the 1930s through 2008, one ...