Mathematicians
in order of appearance
Paul Erdös
Ronald Graham
Vera T. Sós
Joel Spencer
J.W.S. Cassels, F.R.S.
Márta Svéd
Tibor Gallai
Béla Bollobás
Fan Chung
Melvyn Nathanson
László Lovász
Herbert Wilf
Tomász Luczak
Andrzej Rucinski
Peter Winkler
Michal Karonski
Also appearing
Alice Fialowski
Gabriella Bollobás
(sculpting)
Anne Davenport
Lady Bertha Jeffreys
Deborah Knous
(Pan Am counter)
Gene and Elise Patterson
(in Muir Woods)
Gyula Katona
(on recorder)
and various
Epsilons
Produced, directed and edited by
George Paul Csicsery
Based on
"The Man Who Loves Only Numbers"
an article by
Paul Hoffman
Cinematography by
John Knoop
Music by
Mark Adler
Computer animation by
Judith Banning and James Locker
Red Dot Interactive
Narrator
James Locker
Mathematics Consultants
Donald J. Albers
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Ronald Graham
Reuben Hersh
Charles L. Silver
Joel Spence
Consulting Editors
Nathaniel Dorsky
Leslie Asako Gladsjø
Production Crew
Budapest
Sound Recordists
Gyula Traub
Akos Solymosi
Production Manager
Ödön Pál
Gaffer
Endre Vizhányó
Cambridge
Sound Recordist
Mike McDuffie
Assistant
Mark Bollobás
New Jersey
Sound Recordist
John Giannini
Philadelphia
Sound Recordist
Kelvin Walker
Poznan
Sound Recordist
Henryk Juchacz
Assistants
Filip Karonski
Jacek Karonski
San Francisco
Sound Recordist
Toni Hafter
Production Manager
Berry Minott
Assistant Camera
David Collier
Production Assistant
Estée Török
Narration recording, effects editing and sound mix
Jim Kallett
Opticals
Michael Hinton
Credit cinematography
Rock Ross
Sound Editor
Betsy Bannerman
Assistant Editors
Mohammed Husseini
Scott Mahoy
Joseph Schuster
Hungarian archival and newsreel footage courtesy of
Magyar Film Intézet
Edit Köszegi and András Surányi
Photographs by
George Pólya
courtesy of
Gerald L. Alexanderson
and
Birkhäuser Publishing
Erdös family photos courtesy of
Béla Bollobás
Anne Davenport
Paul Erdös
Vera T. Sós
Photos from the Hungarian Revolution courtesy of
Erich Lessing/Magnum
and
The Hulton Deutsch Collection
Erdös sculpture by
Gabriella Bollobás
Russian voice
Peter DePavloff
Musicians
Cello: Judiyaba
Clarinet: Larry London
Piano: Mark Shapiro
Violin: Dan Smiley
Music Recording/Mix Engineer
Cookie Marenco/OTR Studios
Film Lab and Video Transfers
Monaco Film & Video
Video to Film Transfer
Image ATS
On-line Video Editor
Ed Rudolph
Video Arts
Video Editor
Lori Muttersbach
Narration Recording and Mix
Music Annex
Negative Cutting
K. Bik Films
Edge-coding
Insync
Subtitle Coordinator
Pierre Cottrell
Subtitles
Laser Vidéo Titres
Funded by
American Mathematical Society
Film Arts Foundation
Heineman Foundation
Mathematical Association of America
National Science Foundation
Informal Science Education Program
Special thanks to
Paul Erdös
and
Béla Bollobás
Emma Bollobás
Joan Brandt
Linda Chan
Phyllis Chinn
Gabriella Csicsery
Pálma Csicsery
Sigmund Csicsery
Joseph Deken
Peter Dolan
Hyman Field
Ronald Graham
András Hajnal
Bob Hawk
William Jaco
Michal Karonski
John Knoop
Fran Lerner
Leonard Michaels
Anne O'Toole
Akos Ravasz
David Rose
Michael Rossman
Thomas Sanchez
Kim Salyer
Raquel Scherr
Pál Schiffer
Gail Silva
Vera T. Sós
Joel Spencer
Chris Sykes
Suzanne & George Szabó
Kati & Miklós Szemere
Molly Walker
Frank Warner
Adam Mickiewicz University
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bellcore
DIMACS
Ferihegy Airport, Budapest
Film Arts Foundation
Forman Entertainment Group
Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton
MALEV
The Mathematical Institute of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Newark International Airport
Pan Am
San Francisco International Airport
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
United Airlines
University of Pennsylvania
and many more
.