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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 45 sec.) ; 313131332 bytes |
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Actor and comedian Alan Davies never really got to grips with maths. Marcus du Sautoy lives and breathes the subject. In just two weeks can Marcus make Alan think like a mathematician?Most of us have a problem with maths, and Alan Davies is one such person. An award-winning comedian and actor, Alan spends his weekends watching football and enjoying a drink. For him maths is intimidating, dull, and populated by men with poor social skills. For Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, maths is the most exciting, creative subject under the sun. And he has a passion for sharing his love of the subject with the public.Their journey takes them deep into mathematics' more mysterious realms. They take part in an experiment that suggests there is a spooky relationship between the abstract world of the Riemann Hypothesis and the physical world of atoms and crystals. Is maths on the verge of discovering a universal theory for everything?Before Alan's brain can recover, he is whisked off to the venerable Royal Observatory. At the home of time itself, Marcus and Alan explore the greatest, grandest question of all: what shape is our universe? It's a question that has everyone stumped from Aristotle to Einstein. But they discover the proposed solution is typical of mathematics: audacious, brilliant, beautiful - and a little bit weird. (From the UK) (Documentary) G CC |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2011-02-08 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Mappings (Mathematics)
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Mathematical statistics -- Research.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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United Kingdom.
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Streaming video
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Davis, Alan, host
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Du Sautoy, Marcus, host
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Walker, Dan, director
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