Journey into Maths Country (2021) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Journey into Maths Country online in HD.
Journey into Maths Country — Storyline
Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we also find epic landscapes, dizzying ideas and even, sometimes, useful things!
Cast & Crew
Journey into Maths Country — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2021-09-23 |
| Seasons | 2 |
| Episodes | 20 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | arte.tv |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Rating | 8.5/10 (2 votes) |
Journey into Maths Country — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Benford’s Law (2021-09-23) — Frank Benford observed that the number one seems to pop up a lot in both in the supermarket and on tax bills. In understanding this law, it helps to simply look at the world from a
- E2: Newton and the Infinitesimal Calculation (2021-09-23) — Speed is such a common term that it's easy to forget how much of a role maths plays in understanding it. Until three or four centuries ago, there was no speed at all. It was only s
- E3: To Infinity, and Beyond (2021-09-23) — A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology, which even applies to 3-dimensional spaces and anything from donuts, UFOs an
- E4: On the Road to Infinity (2021-09-23) — In this episode of our travels in the land of maths, we are heading towards Infinity. And even beyond, because infinity comes in many sizes. That may seem strange, but Georg Kantor
- E5: Gödel’s Theorem (2021-09-23) — In this episode, we look at the relationship between maths and truth. Maths is meant to be certain, either right or wrong. Turns out, it’s not that simple. For Gödel's theorem has
- E6: The Prisoner’s Dilemma (2021-09-23) — Two prisoners must choose between cooperation and betrayal without consulting each other. This famous prisoner's dilemma that will take us to the heart of game theory. We think mat
- E7: The Game of Life (2021-09-23) — In October 1970 Scientific American magazine introduced a game under the heading “Mathematical Games” that quickly became a cult classic. The idea behind John Conway’s “Game of Lif
- E8: Irrationality (2021-09-23) — 25 centuries ago, the well-ordered world of natural integers and fractions had to expand to accommodate monsters like π and √2. It's a dizzying mathematical expedition where we wil
- E9: A Complex Picnic (2021-09-23) — We have known for a long time that some equations can't be solved as the answers are numbers that don't exist. Fortunately, a slew of mathematicians have uncovered a new field of n
- E10: The Riemann Hypopthesis (2021-09-30) — End of the trips in the land of math with an arduous hike. It is better to be strong on the complex plane. Because it is about an unsolved mystery of mathematics, namely: the distr
Season 2
- E1: The Monty Hall Problem (2023-10-10) — The Monty Hall paradox, named after a game show from the 60s, concerns the way in which information acquired during the course of a game modifies (or not) the winning statistics.
- E2: Simpson's Paradox (2023-10-10) — Statistics seem, almost by their very nature, to convey a positivist message. They are, in fact, a formidable tool in the attempt to master the complexity of the real world…
But
- E3: Non-Euclidean Geometries (2023-10-10) — For centuries, geometry was based on Euclid's postulates, which seemed eternal and irrevocable.
However, one of the postulates (the fifth) has always seemed "a little less natural
- E4: Planar Tessellations (2023-10-10) — A tessellation is a way of covering a plane with a repeating pattern… Basically, it's like creating wallpaper.
In 1975, Marjorie Rice (1923- 2017), a mother and amateur mathemat
- E5: Graph Theory (2023-10-10) — The question is how to make a network that is both "economical" and "robust" without taking up too much space.
This is a theoretical question worked on by the great Russian mathem
- E6: Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes (2023-10-10) — 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 dim
- E7: The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs (2023-10-10) — 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 unort
- E8: Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder (2023-10-10) — Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas?
Behind Edward Lorenz's all-too-famous question lies a mathematical theory of things we'd never imagined b
- E9: Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin (2023-10-10) — How do you model the movement of a potato in space? Many a mathematician has struggled with this question.
At the end of the 19th century, mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya finally
- E10: Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics? (2023-10-10) — Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false…
Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in their own way to determine whether an algorithm co
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Journey into Maths Country have? 2 season(s) with 20 episodes.
Where can I watch Journey into Maths Country? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
