25 Beautiful Math Documentaries to Make Students Love Math & the importance to learn and think in mathematical terms is paramount to all

Throughout the last couple of days, I have been exposed to several of GenAi features and abilities that made me awe (once more) to the potential of this new domain/technology/tool. Pondering about the implication this will have in the near future for me and my children I’m more and more convinced that the changes will be profound and that everyone, but especially the younger generations, need to adapt and embrace it. We should strive to learn (i) critical thinking, (ii)reasoning, (iii)the ability to think for ourselves, (iv) extract conclusions based on a huge amount of data and to (v) raise the correct questions. To do that the importance to learn and think in mathematics terms is paramount. All these to say that we need to motivate ourselves and our children to mathematics in all possible ways. These 25-documentary menu, might allow you to do just that specially with your kids. I will definitely try to do it with mine. 1- A Trip to Infinity, Jonathan Halperin 2- The Great Math Mystery, Dan McCabe, Richard Reisz 3- I Want to Be a Mathematician: A Conversation with Paul Halmos, George Paul Csicsery 4- Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension, Bill Jersey, Michael Schwarz 5- Between the Folds, Vanessa Gould 6- Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani, George Paul Csicsery 7- A Brief History of Time, 8- A Brilliant Madness, Mark Samels 9- Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern, George Paul Csicsery 10- The Proof, Simon Singh 11- The Code,Marcus du Sautoy 12- The Story of Maths, The Story of Maths 13- La lettre scellée du soldat Doblin, Jürgen Ellinghaus 14- A Journey Through the Mathematical Theory of Braids 15- Hard Problems: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Contest 16- Beautiful Young Minds, Morgan Matthews 17- Chaos: A Mathematical Adventure, Jos Leys 18- Julia Robinson and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem, George Paul Csicsery 19- Dimensions, Jos Leys 20- The Story of 1,Nick Murphy 21- The Secret Rules Of Modern Living: Algorithms, David Briggs 22- Escher: Journey Into Infinity, Robin Lutz 23- Codebreaker, Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey 24- The Colours of Infinity, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon 25- Colors of Math, Ekaterina Eremenko https://abakcus.com/25-beautiful-math-documentaries-to-love-math/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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