George Csicsery, a filmmaker in Oakland, California, has won this year's communications award from the American Mathematical Society. Csicsery has directed several independent films with mathematical themes, including Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem (2008)-a biographical documentary about one of the first American women to rise to prominence in mathematics and her role in solving a famous problem-and Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (2008), a documentary about high school students competing in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad.
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