Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards offers ambitious content for viewers that are eager to attain a greater understanding of the world around them. Math is pervasive - a robust yet precise language - and with each episode you’ll begin to see the math that underpins everything in this puzzling, yet fascinating, universe.
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Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
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Associahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
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How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
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A Hierarchy of Infinities
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Topology vs "a" Topology
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Can We Hear Shapes?
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The Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
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When Pi is Not 3.14
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The Assassin Puzzle
Can you save the target from his assassin in a square room with bouncy walls?
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Instant Insanity Puzzle
Can you stack four colored cubes so that each color only shows once on each side?
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Defining Infinity
Set theory is the foundation of all of mathematics. How does it handle infinity?
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Unraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
When you think about math, what do you think of knots? Probably... knot.
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How Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
Infinities come in different sizes. So what's the right way to describe the sum?
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The Geometry of SET
In SET, what is the maximum number of cards you can deal that might not contain a SET?
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What was Fermat’s “Marvelous" Proof?
If Fermat had a little more room in his margin, what proof would he have written there?
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What are Numbers Made of?
In the physical world, objects are made of simpler parts. What are numbers made of?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
Could you explain numbers to someone without using the notion of a number?
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Telling Time on a Torus
What shape do you most associate with a standard analog clock? Circle or... torus?
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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Human: The World Within
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Human: The World Within
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Proprioception - The Sixth Sense
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Life at the Waterhole
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Herd Love Is In the Air
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Insects Swarm and a Family Nests
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A Spotted Hyena Arrives
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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
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COVID-19's Impact on Climate
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Reindeer Face Starvation
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Extinction: The Facts
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Return of the Titans
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When Disaster Strikes
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The Silent Killer
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When Disaster Strikes
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