Where To Stream Magic Numbers Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths Season 1 Episode 3
Weirder and Weirder
- Aired October 24, 2018
- 60 Min
Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern maths, discovered by Bertrand Russell, which undermines the very foundations of logic that all of maths is built on. These flaws suggest that maths isn't a true part of the universe but might just be a human language - fallible and imprecise. However, Hannah argues that Einstein's theoretical equations, such as E=mc2 and his theory of general relativity, are so good at predicting the universe that they must be reflecting some basic structure in...