The Mathematician (1976) | BFI National Archive

Subscribe: 2 2 = BOOM! The apocalyptic danger of maths is explored in this computer animated cartoon from the mind of Stan Hayward. If you struggle with maths then breathe a sigh of relief. Take your quadratic equations too far and BOOM! This BFI funded cartoon brought together emerging computer animation techniques and traditional cel animation. The characters were animated and then drawn onto cels by a graph plotter on a “mini-computer” at the Imperial College London, b