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THE DISCRETE CHARM OF GEOMETRY

By Ekaterina EREMENKO

Documentary - Completed 2015

A unique dive into the unknown world of mathematicians.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- ENGLISH, GERMAN, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 66 mn
- Director(s)
- Ekaterina EREMENKO
- Writer(s)
- Ekaterina EREMENKO
- Cast
- Alexander BOBENKO, Freeman DYSON, Alexander ITS, Ulrich PINKALL
- Producer(s)
- Ekaterina EREMENKO (EEFilms)
- Synopsis
- A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. Scientists united by the idea of discretization, which, in short, means: constructing continuous objects from basic building blocks. Akin to the scientists’ search for the right discretization of continuum, this film itself is composed of fragments – individual characters of different ages, temperaments and scientific approaches – which form a single continuous melody. The question of where the boundaries lie between mathematics and the lives of those who are involved in it and how much they are willing to sacrifice is as important as the search for precise scientific answers. A unique and unprecedented dive into the unknown world of mathematicians.