Journey into Maths Country
Season 2 Episode 6 - Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
8.5 ?
2021
Documentary
To begin with, there are the five "Platonic solids" beloved of geometers: the cube, the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron. But why stop at the 3 dimensions of ordinary space? Alicia Boole Stott has devoted her life to finding regular solids in dimension 4... and she's found them! A journey into unsuspected mathematical regions.
Episodes in Season 2
1
The Monty Hall Problem
10 min
2
Simpson's Paradox
10 min
3
Non-Euclidean Geometries
10 min
4
Planar Tessellations
10 min
5
Graph Theory
10 min
6
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
10 min
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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
