Math goes to the movies /
Polster, Burkard.
Ross, Marty,1959-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Movies. Good math hunting -- The clever hand behind A beautiful mind -- Escalante stands and delivers -- The annotated Pi files -- Nitpicking in mathemagic land -- Escape from the cube -- The incredible shrinking room -- Murder in the hot house -- A word problem for die hards -- 7 x 13 = 28 -- One mirror has tow faces, two mirrors have... -- It's my turn for some serious mathematics -- pt. 2. Mathematics. Beautiful math, or better off dead -- Pythagoras and Fermat at the movies -- Survival in the fourth dimension -- To infinity and beyond! -- Problem corner -- Money-back bloopers -- The funny files -- pt. 3.  Lists. People lists -- Topics lists -- Movie index.
Mathematics in motion pictures.