Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
by George Csicsery
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Actor: so there are no actors., This is documentaryDirector: George Csicsery
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 178 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-11
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Zala Films
DVD Reviews of Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
DVD Review: Thematic but reality oriented
Summary: 5 Stars
The 83 minute documentary, which was about the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad did a good job of giving insight into the lives of the contestants, showing what made them so special. But beyond this, and the looming competition with China, there wasn't too much that held the story together. At first I thought this was a flaw in the movie, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that a realistic documentary should be this way. And in fact hearing about the unusual lives of the contestants, who are high school kids, is pretty interesting anyways. Not that there wasn't content to the rest of the film; for example there was a trip through Europe and a high powered summer school that the American contestants went to.
Description of Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
Hard Problems is about the extraordinary gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world s toughest math competition: The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). It is the story of six American high school students who competed with 500 others from 90 countries in Ljublijana, Slovenia. The film shows the dedication and perseverance of these remarkably talented students, the rigorous preparation they undertake, and the joy they get out of solving challenging math problems. It captures the spirit that infuses the mathematical quest at the highest level. The DVD provides two versions of the documentary: the feature that runs 82 minutes, and a classroom version that runs 45 minutes. BONUS FEATURE SEQUENCES Mathematicians in finance (11:16) Families and schooling (15:55) Girls and the IMO (17:03) History of the IMO (7:12) USA and IMO Olympiads 2006-2007 problems and answers - an 82 pp pdf that shows problems and solutions from the competition. Funding for Hard Problems was provided by a grant from The Penn Oberlander Family Foundation and Ellington Management Group, L.L.C. Cinematogrphy: Skip Sweeney and Andras Toth Szollos. Editor, Tal Skloot. Music by Todd Boekelheide and Alex Liu.Bestsellers in DVD
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