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.
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Zero to Infinity Preview
Preview: Season 49 Episode 19 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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The Area of a Circle, Explained with Pizza
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Clip: S49 Ep19 | 4m 23s | Finding the area of a circle is easy with pizza and infinity. (4m 23s)
Thought Experiment: The Infinite Hilbert's Hotel
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Clip: S49 Ep19 | 4m 9s | At the Hilbert’s Hotel, there’s always room for one more. (4m 9s)
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