Films 2008

Director: Masahito Kasuga
Producer: NHK Japan (Executive Producers) Shinya Ide, Hisashi Miura
Production Year: 2007
Country: Japan
Length: 59 min.

Mathematics is often wrongly regarded as something boring, especially to many students. This film proves otherwise. It asks: What is the shape of our universe? The Poincare Conjecture, developed in 1904 by Henri Poincare, promised to shed light on that question. Yet it remained unproven for a century, until a reclusive Russian genius recently tackled the problem. The film manages to show how captivating mathematics actually is and that mathematicians are like intellectual superstars!