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NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

04/15/2015

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0hr 54min

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Documentary

,History

,Mystery

STORY

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?

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jay O. Sanders
  • Glenn Kalison
  • Max Tegmark
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • Sylvester James Gates

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • GBH

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Jay O. Sanders

    Narrator (voice)

    Glenn Kalison

    Actor

    Max Tegmark

    Self

    Esperanza Spalding

    Self

    Sylvester James Gates

    Self

    Adam Steltzner

    Self

    Janna Levin

    Self

    Simon Schaffer

    Self

    Roger Penrose

    Self

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