NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

2015
54m
7.8

7.8/10

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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?

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Production Information

Production Companies
GBH
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

mathematics

Quick Facts

Release Date April 15, 2015
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt4254160

Cast

Jay O. Sanders
Jay O. Sanders

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Kalison
Glenn Kalison

Actor

Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark

Self

Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding

Self

Sylvester James Gates
Sylvester James Gates

Self

Adam Steltzner
Adam Steltzner

Self

Janna Levin
Janna Levin

Self

Simon Schaffer
Simon Schaffer

Self

Savas Dimopoulos
Savas Dimopoulos

Self

Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose

Self

Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram

Self

Key Crew

Dan McCabe
Producer
Richard Reisz
Producer
Chris Schmidt
Executive Producer
Richard Reisz
Director
Dan McCabe
Director
Dan McCabe
Writer