Journey into Maths Country
Season 2 Episode 3 - Non-Euclidean Geometries
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2021
Documentary
For centuries, geometry was based on Euclid's postulates, which seemed eternal and irrevocable. However, one of the postulates (the fifth) has always seemed "a little less natural" than the others, and hundreds of mathematicians have tried in vain to do without it by deducing it from the other postulates. In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann came up with a novel idea: let's imagine it's false! This was the birth of "non-Euclidean geometries", which would later have major applications in physics.
Episodes in Season 2
1
The Monty Hall Problem
10 min
2
Simpson's Paradox
10 min
3
Non-Euclidean Geometries
10 min
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4
Planar Tessellations
10 min
5
Graph Theory
10 min
6
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
10 min
7
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
10 min
8
Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
10 min
9
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
10 min
10
Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
10 min
