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The Story Of Maths ( Episode 4 – Part 1 Of 5) – BBC 20th Century & The Frontier Of Science

A BBC documentary on the history of mathematics, from its early beginnings to its current challenges… In this final Episode (4): The Frontiers of Science, The 20th Century. In this part (1 of 5), we begin with Hilberts’ Paradox (see also en.wikipedia.org , or en.wikipedia.org ) and look into the concept of Infinity, beginning with Georg Cantor (see en.wikipedia.org or en.wikipedia.org ), moving towards Chaos Theory and Henri Poincaré, who also founded todays Systems Theory, the linchpin of current and Future Cybernetics ( See also, en.wikipedia.org )…
The Story Of Maths (Episode 4 – Part 3 Of 5) – BBC 20th Century & The Frontiers Of Science

A BBC documentary on the history of mathematics, from its early beginnings to its current challenges… In this final Episode (4): The Frontiers of Science, The 20th Century. In this part (3 of 5) we look into the life of Paul Cohen and his development of the “proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis” ( See en.wikipedia.org ), and introducing Julia Robinson, bes known for her work on Decision Problems & Hilbert’s Tenth Problem (See also en.wikipedia.org ) and collaboration from St. Petersburg, Russia, Yuri Matiyasevich who solved Hilbert’s Tenth Problem (See en.wikipedia.org ), capturing the Fibbonacci Sequence….








