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?
Proof
2005
6
Hidden Figures
2016
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Cube
1998
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Cube 2: Hypercube
2002
5
Cube Zero
2004
5
Pi
1998
7
Hard Problems
2008
7
Outside In
1994
8
La Habitación de Fermat
2007
6
The Story of 1
2005
7
Not Knot
1990
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Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
2008
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Symmetry
1961
7
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
1961
6
UFO
2018
6
Clouds Are Not Spheres
2010
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Έτερος Εγώ
2017
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Terror by Night
1946
6
The Oxford Murders
2008
5
Tails You Win: The Science of Chance
2012
7