A Álgebra é generosa; ela frequentemente dá mais do que aquilo que lhe é pedido. (D'Alembert)
This is a 1984 BBC Horizon documentary looking at the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics. Featuring interviews with many modern mathematicians, this documentary also looks at the history of maths and some of if it’s major players from Euclid to Bertrand Russell.
Explores the world of pure mathematics and …
Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on an amazing journey into the science of bubbles. Bubbles may seem to be just fun toys, but they are also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science.
The soap bubble with its delicate, fragile skin tells us about how nature works …
Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey is a BBC documentary series presented by Kate Humble and Helen Czerski which aired in 2012. Running for three 60 minute episodes, the series focuses on Earth’s orbit around the Sun and its effect on humans, the climate, and geological features.
Right now you’re hurtling around …
90 million miles away from us is the power that shapes our world – the sun. We see it shine in the sky above us, but beyond our sight something dramatic is happening – the sun is going into overdrive.
It’s more active now that it’s been for a decade, …
by AMMA · Published 13 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 14 de Outubro de 2020
We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they appear.
In this …
Wonders of Life is a 2013 television documentary series presented by physicist Brian Cox. The series was produced by the BBC and Chinese state television network CCTV-9 and aired in the United Kingdom from 27 January 2013 at 9:00 pm on BBC Two. An accompanying book with the …
This episode looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers, mathematician Hannah Fry delves into the data we have today to provide an evidence-based vision of tomorrow. With the help of the …
by AMMA · Published 12 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 13 de Outubro de 2020
Forces of Nature is a four-part television documentary series presented by physicist Brian Cox.
The series was co-produced by BBC Studios, PBS and France Télévisions and originally aired in the United Kingdom weekly from 4 July 2016 at 21:00 on BBC One.
Professor Brian Cox combines some …
by AMMA · Published 11 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 12 de Outubro de 2020
Everything around us – from the tiniest insect on Earth to the most distant stars of the cosmos – exists …
by AMMA · Published 6 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 7 de Outubro de 2020
Ada Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada’s remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century, Ada was a countess of the realm, a scandalous socialite and an ‘enchantress of numbers’. The film is an enthralling tale of how …
Ciência e Tecnologia / Matemática / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 3 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 4 de Outubro de 2020
The Royal Institution was founded to introduce new technologies and teach science to the general public through lectures and demonstrations. Humphry Davy, one of the first Professors, established scientific research as a crucial part of the Ri’s identity, something never envisaged by the founders of the institution.
Over …
by AMMA · Published 1 de Outubro de 2020 · Last modified 2 de Outubro de 2020
Chris Serle, Ian McNaught-Davis and Gill Nevill begin their exploration of the world of Information Science and ask: what can computers do for us? Who is using them now, and where is this technology likely to lead? (1982)
Ian McNaught-Davis and the BBC Micro
This series looked at all …
Chemistry: A Volatile History is a 2010 BBC documentary on the history of chemistry presented by Jim Al-Khalili. It was nominated for the 2010 British Academy Television Awards in the category Specialist Factual.
The story of how the elements were discovered and mapped begins with …
by AMMA · Published 29 de Setembro de 2020 · Last modified 15 de Outubro de 2020
Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing – a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. They were fascinated because she was the first woman to win the Nobel …
Ciência e Tecnologia / Matemática / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 29 de Setembro de 2020 · Last modified 15 de Outubro de 2020
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is …
Ciência e Tecnologia / Matemática / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 29 de Setembro de 2020 · Last modified 15 de Outubro de 2020
Nature follows a number of intricate and subtle mathematical rules to produce the patterns, shapes, and colors that we find so mesmerizing.
Wherever we find patterns and symmetry in nature, we also find that nature conforms to …
Ciência e Tecnologia / Matemática / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 28 de Setembro de 2020 · Last modified 15 de Outubro de 2020
Following in the footsteps of BBC Four’s award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats and The Joy of Data, this latest gleefully nerdy adventure sees mathematician Dr Hannah Fry unlock the essential strategies you’ll need to get what you want – to win – more of the time. From …
by AMMA · Published 4 de Maio de 2019 · Last modified 5 de Maio de 2019
In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they discovered a 2,000 year-old Greek shipwreck. Among the ship’s cargo they hauled up was an unimpressive green lump of …
Episode 1
Ben Garrod and Danielle George explore whether machines built to enhance our lives could become our greatest rivals. Ben meets one of the most humanlike robots in the world, Erica.
Episode 2
Ben Garrod and Danielle George investigate whether robots will ever become our friends, if we should …
by AMMA · Published 4 de Maio de 2019 · Last modified 22 de Setembro de 2020
They run our factory assembly lines and make our coffee. But humanoid robots — machines with human-like capabilities — have long been the stuff of science fiction. Until now.
Fueled by an ambitious DARPA challenge, the race is on to design a robot that can replace humans in disaster …
Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the everyday sounds we hear and those that we normally cannot hear. Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a sonic odyssey through the sounds of the universe – to reveal what the physics of sound can tell us about the world and …
Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 1 de Maio de 2019 · Last modified 4 de Maio de 2019
Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves – the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It will start just before midnight of the 5th of June, and …
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.
Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black …
Leonardo da Vinci is, of course, best known as one of the world’s greatest artists. At his death in 1519, he was famous for such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But he was more than a painter, he was also a musician, writer, and showman. …
Scientists genuinely don’t know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we’re made from only make up four per cent. The rest is dark matter and dark energy (for ‘dark’, read ‘don’t know’). The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been upgraded. When it’s switched on in …
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