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Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World Of Maths...

Rating:4.3 of 5Total number of episodes:3
Last broadcast:19/01/2021 at 14:00
October 2018
59:00

Series 1: 24/10/2018

Expired 4.5 48 x
Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern maths, discovered by Bertrand Russell, which undermines the very foundations of logic that all of maths is built on. These flaws suggest that maths isn't a true part of the universe but might just be a human language - fallible and imprecise. However, Hannah argues that Eins...
January 2021
59:00

Series 1, Episode 2 - Expanded Horizons

4.5 16 x
Documentary series. Dr Hannah Fry travels down the fastest zip wire in the world to learn more about Newton's ideas on gravity.
59:00

Series 1, Episode 1 - Numbers as God

4.0 20 x
Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language, or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?
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