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Episodes
Season 2015
What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.
Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.
Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.
Where Did the Universe Come From?
Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.
Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.
Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”
Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.
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