Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
GEORGE PAUL CSICSERY, a writer and independent filmmaker since 1968, was born in Germany in 1948 and immigrated to the United States in 1951. He has directed 26 films dramatic shorts, performance films and documentaries. His two most recent works are both on mathematical themes. Julia Robinson and Hilbert s Tenth Problem, a one-hour biographical documentary about an American mathematician and her part in solving one of the 20th century s most famous mathematics problems premiered in January 2008. The project is partially supported by the Clay Mathematics Institute and by Margaret & Will Hearst.  Other recent films include The Right Spin (2005), about astronaut Michael Foale and his part in saving the Mir space station in 1997, made for Math Awareness Month, and The Thursday Club (2005) an hour-long documentary about retired Oakland policemen who were involved in suppressing the antiwar demonstrations of the 1960s George Csicsery is the author and co-author of four feature-length screenplays: He has taught film editing at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco (1982-1997), and general cinema courses to undergraduates at San Francisco State University (1996) and at UC Davis (1998). He lives in Oakland, California.