NOVA leads viewers 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. But where does math get its power? Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, follows math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind's clever trick or the language of the universe?
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At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential serie...
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Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do n...
A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an in...
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...
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John von Neumann, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time, was named Man of...