When the Spanish filmmaker and graphic designer Cristóbal Vila looks at nature, he sees numbers, and the remarkable elegance of mathematics. Uniting music and animation with mathematics, Nature by Numbers is a sensory science film, an immersion in the world of the minute and microscopic, and an exciting introduction to some of the great geometric and scientific concepts.
The elegance of mathematics meets the breathtaking complexity of nature
Director: Cristóbal Vila
6 June 2014
videoEcology and environmental sciences
Close-ups reveal how caterpillars live long enough to cocoon
9 minutes
videoBiology
What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales?
65 minutes
videoBiology
For 3 billion years, life was unicellular. Why did it start to collaborate?
4 minutes
videoBiology
Dive deep into an egg cell to see how ageing reboots when a new life begins
2 minutes
videoMathematics
After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour
20 minutes
videoEthics
What’s an idea worth? How prominent thinkers have understood intellectual property
6 minutes
