with filmmaker Harrie Willems
Wolfgang Doeblin was a mathematician/soldier/telegraphist who served at the front during World War II. In May 2000, the Academy of Sciences in Paris opened a letter from him that had been sent 60 years earlier. It contained a mathematical manuscript called "On Kolmogorov's equation," which upon being deciphered, caused a sensation among mathematicians. The film documents scientific and human aspects of this amazing discovery and throws new light on the startling circumstances of Doeblin's death at the age of 25. Presented by the Probability Group at Cornell.
2007, color, 55 min, Germany/Netherlands