The Best Mathematics Documentaries

Science & Tech - 50 free documentaries about mathematics.

Start with Once you understand game theory, you understand the world. (27 min, Veritasium), then This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50 (26 min, Veritasium). All 50 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on mathematics is Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh.

• Once you understand game theory, you understand the world. (27 min, Veritasium)
• This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50 (26 min, Veritasium)
• The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math? (23 min, Be Smart)
• Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain (30 min, Veritasium)
• How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented (23 min, Veritasium)
• This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map) (19 min, Veritasium)
• Why is this number everywhere? (24 min, Veritasium)
• The Most Underrated Algorithm (27 min, Veritasium)
• I Solved Every Board Game (29 min, Mark Rober)
• How well do people actually understand statistics? (15 min, Veritasium)
• The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything (33 min, Veritasium)
• The line that broke mathematicians for 2000 years (31 min, Veritasium)
• Math's Fundamental Flaw (34 min, Veritasium)
• The Discovery That Transformed Pi (19 min, Veritasium)
• Chaos: The Science of the Butterfly Effect (13 min, Veritasium)
• The Equation That Beat Wall Street (30 min, Veritasium)
• Something Strange Happens When You Flatten the Earth… (27 min, Be Smart)
• The Most Controversial Idea In Math (33 min, Veritasium)
• The Insane Math Of Knot Theory (35 min, Veritasium)
• HIDDEN MATHEMATICS - Randall Carlson - Ancient Knowledge of Space, Time & Cosmic Cycles (123 min, After Skool)
• When This Number Hits 5200 - You Will be Dead (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math (32 min, Veritasium)
• The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve - Collatz Conjecture (22 min, Veritasium)
• The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers (16 min, Be Smart)
• From 0 to 9 - The mysterious origins of our numbers (52 min, DW Documentary)
• The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine (48 min, Veritasium)
• The Most Mysterious Theories in Mathematics | Ancient Aliens (21 min, HISTORY)
• Pythagoras: The Mathematician Who Reformed Ancient Greece | Genius (45 min, Odyssey)
• The Shifting Demographics in Mainstream, USA | America By The Numbers (26 min, PBS)
• The MIND BLOWING Math of Simple Objects (59 min, Spark)
• An Actually Good Explanation of Moles (14 min, Steve Mould)
• Algorithms rule us all - VPRO documentary - 2018 (46 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Story of Creation Through Sacred Geometry (13 min, After Skool)
• The Mathematical Code Hidden In Nature (14 min, Be Smart)
• What If The Universe Is Math? (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• I Didn't know Birds use Math in Murmurations! - Smarter Every Day 234 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• BEST Guess Who Strategy- 96% WIN record using MATH (12 min, Mark Rober)
• Does Infinity - Infinity = an Electron? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything! (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Infinity isn’t a number. It's something much weirder. (12 min, Be Smart)
• World's Most Mysterious Secrets: Top Ten Enigmas of the Ancient World (67 min, Free Documentary)
• E=mc²: The Most Powerful Equation In History (52 min, Spark)
• The Mysterious Man Behind The Bellman Equation (86 min, Real Stories)
• What Exactly Is Mankind's Place In The Infinity Of Space? (56 min, Spark)
• Mathematics Is Deeply Rooted In Ever | Ever Wondered (22 min, Spark)
• The Geometry of Causality (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Search Engine Breakdown: Are Algorithms Racist and Sexist? (21 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• 2048 strategy and maths (24 min, Steve Mould)
• Can mathematics describe everything? (Big Questions 4/8) (43 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Breaking Down 'Zero to Infinity' with Talithia Williams, Manjul Bhargava, and Eugenia Cheng (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)

Top-Rated Books About Mathematics

1. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Code Book by Simon Singh (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg (4/5) - View on Amazon
4. Humble Pi by Matt Parker (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H. Rosen (4.7/5) - View on Amazon
6. Applied mathematics for business, economics, and the social sciences by Frank S. Budnick (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
7. Discrete mathematics by Norman Biggs - View on Amazon
8. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
9. Introductory Mathematical Analysis by Ernest F. Haeussler (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
10. The Joy of X by Steven H. Strogatz (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
11. How to solve it by George Pólya (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
12. Engineering mathematics by Bird, J. O. - View on Amazon
13. Advanced engineering mathematics by Jain, R. K. - View on Amazon
14. What is mathematics? by Richard Courant (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
15. Mathematical structures for computer science by Judith L. Gersting - View on Amazon
16. Concrete mathematics by Ronald L. Graham (4.8/5) - View on Amazon
17. Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
18. Mathematics; with applications in management and economics by Earl K. Bowen - View on Amazon
19. Mathematical Analysis by Tom M. Apostol - View on Amazon
20. Principles of mathematics 9 by Wayne Erdman - View on Amazon
21. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
22. Mathematical methods for science students by G. Stephenson - View on Amazon
23. Everyday Mathematics by WrightGroup/McGraw-Hill - View on Amazon
24. The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis (3.5/5) - View on Amazon