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Zero to Infinity Preview

Discover how the concepts of zero and infinity revolutionized mathematics.

Aired 11/16/2022

NOVA

Zero to Infinity Preview

Preview: Season 49 Episode 19 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions

Discover how the concepts of zero and infinity revolutionized mathematics.

Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be – not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years.

Aired 11/16/2022

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