Horizon A Mathematical Mystery Tour
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Mathematicians have created some powerful tools for analyzing reality. Factorial math is one of those tools, this video uses a simple example to explain fact…
if you try to look for a puzzle inside something you created yourself your
not gonna find anything outside it… what a waste of effort and
resources… you will only find puzzles you created yourself…
When was this documentary made? Because Fermat’s Last Theorem was proved
not too long ago.
This was originally a classic PBS Nova program from 1985, also apparently a
co-production with BBC’s Horizon (I didn’t know their series dated back
that far). The American Nova version had the exact same script written by
Jon Palfreman as I remember but had a US narrator that I can’t identify
from this version re-dubbed with a British narrator, Peter France. Both
Fermat & Poincare Conjectures have since been solved. The Clay Mathematics
Institute offers a million dollars for proofs answering the remaining
problems.
Math is like the mysterious monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey because, just
like the monolith gave those apes the information that led from the
rotating bone to the rotating space craft, Mathematics has given use
information about the universe that took us from ancient times to the age
of modern technology and will soon unravel the inner workings of the
universe.
Their approximation of PI was only correct to 11 decimal places,
interesting.
At 17:09… That hypercube in 4d space is simply incredible.
I watched this horizon when I was a kid on bbc2 and it blew my mind. Never
missed any horizon ep since !
math is a tool, not a goal…
23:40 Pi digits after ..6535 are 8979323846.( I only know it off by heart
to 20 places )Here it’s 82148109757 have I been wrong all these years!?
interesting!
Mmmmm, π :D
Aristotle defined mathematics as “the science of quantity”, and this
definition prevailed until the 18th century. Starting in the 19th century,
when the study of mathematics increased in rigor and began to address
abstract topics such as group theory and projective geometry, which have no
clear-cut relation to quantity and measurement, mathematicians and
philosophers began to propose a variety of new definitions. Some of these
definitions emphasize the deductive character of much of mathematics, some
emphasize its abstractness, some emphasize certain topics within
mathematics. Today, no consensus on the definition of mathematics prevails,
even among professionals. There is not even consensus on whether
mathematics is an art or a science. A great many professional
mathematicians take no interest in a definition of mathematics, or consider
it undefinable. Some just say, “Mathematics is what mathematicians do.”
uh typo at 23.37?
Horizon A Mathematical Mystery Tour
I remember this music!
Mathematics proves there is reason, form, order,certainty and laws. As an
atheist this sounds incredibly like something God-like., ie there is a hand
(webbed or not) with its hand up the puppets arse.
Again, a fallacy of presumption, for we still beg the question, “Does God
exist?”
You sucked in math in high school didnt you?
well said and a big YES IN 2014
It’s not even close to the best supported, although it’s the most
reasonable nowadays.
If you read any text on prime number theory, the analysis is principally in
one or two dimensions. That is functions of X expressed on the Y axis,
often using complex variables. To my knowledge, no use is ever made of
linear algebra to fix unsolved problems such as the occurrence twin primes.
Linear algebra considers every dimension from dimension zero through to
hyperspaces of dimension four upwards. The one dimensional space is of
course the X axis. I hope this makes things clearer.
That is incorrect. All of foundations of mathematics is proved by logic
(and re formalize into math). But there is still a very large gap in
mathematicians working at low level logic and mathematicians working at
higher abstract level proof.
I imagine the theory has moved on somewhat in the past 150 years or so
though.
How old is this?
@Pyrazahn yes, this is more interesting. an idea how to do it? 😛
Grrrrrrreat 🙂
So, that’s why librarians are always so grumpy…. Excellent video!
His voice is so soothing
Pretty cool
Wow..im really facinated..just 10 books!! imagine changing the alphabets
into different orders!
Outstanding
I get it! I get it!
love your videos!
All the possible combinations in a Rubik’s cube add up to 43 quintillion
I have to congratulate this channel. It’s hard to find such useful and
informative channels over here…
ThankYou
Well done
science ftw!!
I’m pretty sure I can do that book arranging in 115 years. I’ll start now
and let you guys know later how it went…
encryption uses same mathematics.128bit encryption,256 bit encryption etc…
make more videos about graphing and solutions of functions such as
y=3X^3+2X^2+7X+14 great work keep up:)
@Arenalgarden this dude as a stunning point.
Excellent, very cool.
MATH IS POWER BABY YEAH!!!
So it would take much more time to arrange ten books than to read or even
to write them. ^^ But honestly, I wished I had have such math teachings
during my school times…
i’ve always wandered what’s the x! function on my high school casio
calculator used for. thank you =D
Brilliant! =D
Just rearanging them in a row, vertically, that wouldn’t really take that
long would it?
Havent done probability and statistics in ages! Memories. Good video as
usual 🙂