• 2016
PBS Infinite Series

Summary Mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley and physicist Gabe Perez-Giz offer ambitious content for viewers that are eager to attain a greater understanding of the world around them. Math is pervasive - a robust yet precise language - and with each episode you'll begin to see the math that underpins everything in this puzzling, yet fascinating, universe. Previous host Kelsey Houston-Edwards is currently working on her Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University. View more details

  • 2016

PBS Infinite Series

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Stars : Matthew O'Dowd Kelsey Houston-Edwards

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 16, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Kornhaber Brown

Summary Mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley and physicist Gabe Perez-Giz offer ambitious content for viewers that are eager to attain a greater understanding of the world around them. Math is pervasive - a robust yet precise language - and with each episode you'll begin to see the math that underpins everything in this puzzling, yet fascinating, universe. Previous host Kelsey Houston-Edwards is currently working on her Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 16, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Kornhaber Brown

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Apr 28, 2015
The Female Orgasm, Explained with Science Projects
Nov 16, 2016
A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Hyperspheres are spheres of more than three dimensions. A natural thing to do with sphere is to find the best way to stack them. Seems easy but it took a couple hundred years before Thomas Hale prove our natural why of stacking oranges is the best. And only recently (2016) was the best way to pack eight and twenty-four dimensional spheres proven. All the other dimensions are still unknown. And that's just the start of the counter-intuitive feature of hyperspheres.
Nov 23, 2016
Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
Nov 30, 2016
How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
Dec 07, 2016
A Hierarchy of Infinities
Infinities is counter intuitive, even to mathematicians. Rules about infinity tend to resist proof so mathematicians have settles for some conventions. And they have come to the conclusion that infinity comes in different sizes. And the counting number are a smaller number than the real numbers.
Dec 14, 2016
Can You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
Dec 21, 2016
Can We Hear Shapes?
Jan 04, 2017
When Pi is Not 3.14
Jan 11, 2017
Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
Jan 15, 2017
The Mathematics of Quantum Computers
Jan 18, 2017
Singularities Explained
Jan 25, 2017
Kill the Mathematical Hydra
A self-regenerating mythical beast provides a introduction to infinite ordinal numbers.
Feb 01, 2017
How Infinity Explains the Finite
Feb 22, 2017
Splitting Rent with Triangles
Mar 01, 2017
Infinite Chess
Mar 08, 2017
5 Unusual Proofs
Mar 15, 2017
Proving Pick's Theorem
Mar 22, 2017
What is a Random Walk?
Apr 05, 2017
Solving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
Apr 09, 2017
Why I Love PBS
Apr 12, 2017
Can We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
Apr 19, 2017
How to Break Cryptography
Apr 26, 2017
Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
May 03, 2017
Building an Infinite Bridge
May 10, 2017
Topology Riddles
May 18, 2017
The Devil's Staircase
May 31, 2017
Dissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
Pascal's triangle provides clues to what shapes are produced by slicing a hyper-cube with a hyper-plane (a hyper-cube of one less dimension).
Jun 07, 2017
Pantographs and the Geometry of Complex Functions
Jun 14, 2017
Voting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
Jun 21, 2017
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Jun 28, 2017
Network Mathematics and Rival Factions
Jul 12, 2017
Making Probability Mathematical
Jul 20, 2017
Why Computers are Bad at Algebra
Aug 02, 2017
The Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
Aug 09, 2017
Stochastic Supertasks
Aug 21, 2017
Your Brain as Math - Part 1
Aug 22, 2017
Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math Part 2
Aug 23, 2017
Your Mind Is Eight-Dimensional - Your Brain as Math Part 3
Sep 13, 2017
How the Axiom of Choice Gives Sizeless Sets
Sep 20, 2017
Higher-Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe
Sep 27, 2017
The Cops and Robbers Theorem
Oct 05, 2017
How Many Cops to Catch a Robber?
Oct 11, 2017
How to Generate Pseudorandom Numbers
Oct 18, 2017
Crisis in the Foundation of Mathematics
Nov 09, 2017
Hilbert's 15th Problem: Schubert Calculus
Nov 16, 2017
The Heat Equation + Special Announcement!
Nov 22, 2017
The Multiplication Multiverse
Nov 29, 2017
Associahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
Dec 11, 2017
Almost Unbreakable Crypto
Dec 13, 2017
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