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NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
- ColinWright 11y agoWe're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions. What's it about? Anyone got a summary?
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- dstein64 11y agoHere's the description. > Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html
- dstein64 11y agoHere are some more links. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365464997/ http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365464997/
- zxcvcxz 11y agoLove me some NOVA. Got me interested in science as a kid. My favorite episode is probably the one with the Bose-Einstein condensate. Sucks it looks like their website only supports flash.