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Season 42 · Episode 17
Landed Wed, 15 Apr 2015 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 42, Episode 17 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S42E17The Great Math MysteryJoin NOVA 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. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?
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