Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: Movies
1. Good Math Hunting
2. The Clever Hand Behind A Beautiful Mind
3. Escalante Stands and Delivers
4. The Annotated Pi Files
5. Nitpicking in Mathmagic Land
6. Escape from the Cube
7. The Incredible Shrinking Room
8. Murder in the Hot House
9. A Word problem for Die Hards
10. 7x13=28
11. One Mirror Has two Faces, Two Mirrors Have...
12. It's My Turn for Some Serious Mathematics

Part II: Mathematics
13. Beautiful Math, or Better off Dead
14. Pythagroas and Fermat at the Movies
15. Survival in the Fourth Dimension
16. To Infinity, and Beyond!
17. Problem Corner
18. Money-Back Bloopers
19. The Funny Files

Part III: Lists
20. People Lists
21. Topics Lists

Movie Index

About the Author

Burkard Polster is an associate professor of mathematics at Monash University and author of A Geometrical Picture Book and The Mathematics of Juggling. Marty Ross, together with Polster, writes Maths Masters, a weekly column published in Australia's Age newspaper, featuring fascinating and playful discussions of a wide range of mathematical topics.

Reviews

Written in a breezy, humorous style. If you like math and movies and are looking for a fun read, check it out. -- David Joyner MAA Reviews [A] thorough and entertaining survey... This behind-the-scenes look at movie math shows how fun and illuminating equations can be. Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin Math Goes to the Movies is a wonderful read. -- Richard J. Wilders MAA Reviews Movie and television aficionados who have a mathematics background will enjoy this book. Choice Math Goes to the Movies comes packed with math and film insights alike, and is recommended for a wide audience. Midwest Book Review Not only is it very easy to read, it is also a pleasure, owing to the authors' warm humour. I heartily recommend this book to any mathematician who is interested in the way that their discipline and its practitioners are presented to the wider cinema-going public. -- Christopher Hollings Mathematics Today This is an entertaining grab bag of mathematical and movie titbits that will delight mathematically minded movie buffs. -- Robyn Arianrhod Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society