Outside In

Film

Outside In

United States
Director
Silvio Levy
Year
1994

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. Through a combination of dialogue and exposition accessible to anyone who has some interest in mathematics, Outside In builds up to the grand finale: Bill Thurston's "corrugations" method of turning the sphere inside out.

Top cast

Directed by

Silvio Levy, Delle Maxwell

Written by

Bill Thurston, David Ben-Zvi, Delle Maxwell, Matt Headrick