The Story of Maths - Episode 04: To Infinity and Beyond

BBC, Kim Duke, Marcus du Sautoy

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Title: The Story of Maths - Episode 04: To Infinity and Beyond
Producer: BBC, Kim Duke, Marcus du Sautoy
Category: Science, The Story of Maths
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Added: Aug 2nd 2010
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Four part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy.

The fourth episode, To Infinity and Beyond, concludes the series. After exploring Georg Cantor’s work on infinity and Henri Poincare’s work on chaos theory, he looks at how mathematics was itself thrown into chaos by the discoveries of Kurt Godel, who showed that the unknowable is an integral part of maths, and Paul Cohen, who established that there were several different sorts of mathematics in which conflicting answers to the same question were possible. He concludes his journey by considering the great unsolved problems of mathematics today, including the Riemann Hypothesis, a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers. A million dollar prize and a place in the history books await anyone who can prove Riemann’s theorem.

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