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?
Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slop...
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...
Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try any...
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each ...
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...
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhode...
What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time ...
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential serie...
Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge Universi...
John von Neumann, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time, was named Man of...
In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...
Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Ma...
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-Ameri...
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Math...
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech rom...
Revised 1998 version. Beginning with a review of functions and graphing, Part 1 jumps into the world...