Journey into Maths Country
Season 2 Episode 7 - The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
8.5 ?
2021
Documentary
When mathematics tells us the best way to stack oranges... Formulated in 1611, Kepler's conjecture was finally proved by Thomas Hales... in 1998! Using computational methods unorthodox for his colleagues. The certification of mathematical demonstrations is an arduous and tedious process.
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
7
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
10 min
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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
