Way, way back in the early days of Combinations and Permutations, epsiode 2 particularly, we discussed mathematics and its appearences in popular culture. I knew at the time we would miss whole swaths of instances and now thanks to Oliver Knill from Harvard I have proof. Knill has put together an amazing collection of Math in Movies, which I swear I will link to at least one more time before this is over, complete with clips from many movies. Here is an example of Math in Movies, there is that last link, from Monty Python’s Flying Circus we have Leibniz in Goal and Archimedes as Striker:

Make sure to check out the rest of the videos on Knill’s site, got even one more link in right here, to see just what we missed.

The Mathematics Genealogy Project, Mitch Keller Managing Director, has long been one of the favorite time wasters for mathematicians on the internet. Just type in the name of your teacher, advisor, or yourself, if you are a PhD, and you will be able to track back, through the advisor-student relationship, all the way until the records run out and probably find yourself admist such luminaries as Gauss, Bernoulli, and Leibniz. Well over at thatismathematics they have used the data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project to put together a brand new service: Mathematical Relationship Search. Just input the names of two mathematicians and voila, you could find out, like I did, that your advisor is the sixth cousin six times removed of Carl Frederich Gauss.