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NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

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Documentary   History   Mystery
📜 Overview: 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?
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 2015-04-15
⌚ Running Time: 54 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.8

Beloved Cast

Jay O. Sanders original image
Narrator (voice)
Jay O. Sanders
Glenn Kalison original image
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Glenn Kalison
Max Tegmark original image
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Max Tegmark
Esperanza Spalding original image
Self
Esperanza Spalding
Sylvester James Gates original image
Self
Sylvester James Gates
Adam Steltzner original image
Self
Adam Steltzner
Janna Levin original image
Self
Janna Levin
Simon Schaffer original image
Self
Simon Schaffer
Savas Dimopoulos original image
Self
Savas Dimopoulos
Roger Penrose original image
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Roger Penrose
Stephen Wolfram original image
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Stephen Wolfram

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