A Casinha da Matemática

A Álgebra é generosa; ela frequentemente dá mais do que aquilo que lhe é pedido. (D'Alembert)

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Matemática / Vídeo

A Brilliant Madness

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash

A Brilliant Madness is the story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness. At the age of 30, John Nash, a stunningly original and famously eccentric MIT mathematician, suddenly began claiming that aliens were communicating with him and that he was a special messenger. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Nash spent the next three decades in and out of mental hospitals, all but forgotten.

During that time, a proof he had written at … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos

Documentary which looks at how developments in mathematics over the past 40 years have completely changed our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world we live in

Documentary which looks at how developments in mathematics over the past 40 years have completely changed our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world we live in.

As we approach tipping points in both the economy and the climate, the film examines the mathematics we have been reluctant to face up to and asks if, even now, we would rather bury our heads in the sand rather than face harsh truths.

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Science and Islam

Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Versão legendada em português do brasil:

Episódio 1: The Language of Science

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

The Music of the Primes

Marcus du Sautoy presents the story of those who have tried to capture one of the greatest unsolved problems of mathematics, the pattern of prime numbers

For more than 2000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented those mathematicians brave enough to tackle it. Some have given up in despair. Others have been driven mad.

Yet it’s a conundrum that helped Britain to win the Second World War; that was instrumental in the birth of the computer; and that has shed light on the behaviour of atoms, the building blocks of matter itself.… Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

Conjectura de Poincaré – Geometria para Entender o Universo

Uma palestra de Marcelo Viana
Marcelo Viana

Marcelo Viana nasceu no Rio de Janeiro em 1962.

Realizou os estudos em Portugal, tendo obtido a licenciatura em Matemática pela Universidade do Porto, em 1984. Regressou ao Brasil onde obteve o grau de doutor em Sistemas Dinâmicos pelo IMPA – Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada do Rio de Janeiro, em 1990.

Actualmente é Investigador Catedrático e Director Adjunto do IMPA, Bolseiro de Produtividade do CNPq-Brasil, Coordenador Científico da União Matemática da América Latina (UMALCA) e … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

E=mc2: Einstein’s Big Idea

NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation

Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In “Einstein’s Big Idea,” NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation.

E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

The story of a wandering mathematician obsessed with unsolved problems

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. — Sir Isaac Newton

A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

Fractals – Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature

You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart. In this film, NOVA takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of maverick mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry.

For centuries, fractal-like irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries … Ler mais

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Divulgação / Vídeo

The History of the Archimedes Palimpsest

At 2pm on October 29th, 1998, at Christie’s auction house in New York, a very special old book was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,000,000

At 2pm on October 29th, 1998, at Christie’s auction house in New York, a very special old book was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,000,000. This collector deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in order to conserve it, image it, and study it.

The book is special because it contains seven treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. Two of these treatises, The Stomachion and The Method exist nowhere else in the world. This … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Infinite Secrets: The Genius of Archimedes

A battered manuscript turns up after 1.000 years, revealing the mind of the great genius Archimedes

Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, and eight centuries after a Christian monk erased what may have been the last surviving copy, the lost treatise has turned up and is being deciphered in a Baltimore museum. “Infinite Secrets” reports the story of the manuscript’s amazing discovery and how modern technology is being used to read its startling contents.

Archimedes is famous for shouting “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”) on stepping into his … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Genius of Britain

Britain's top scientific names tell the story of the British science and ingenuity that has been at the forefront of some of history's greatest advances

Britain may only be a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the atom.

In this five-part series some of Britain’s leading scientific figures – Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson – … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity of Genius

BIOGRAPHY relates the story of Isaac Newton’s life from his birth during a plague in an English village through his seminal work in mathematics, theology, alchemy and astronomy

BIOGRAPHY relates the story of Isaac Newton’s life from his birth during a plague in an English village through his seminal work in mathematics, theology, alchemy and astronomy.

Newton devoted his life to the study of the natural world, discovering the laws of gravity, analyzing light, and developing the three laws of motion to explain the movement of the planets and their satellites.

The documentary provides in depth discussions of each of Newton’s major discoveries, including calculus, gravity and the … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Albert Einstein: How I See the World

This biographical treatment of Albert Einstein accurately portrays him not as a detached physicist, but rather as a man deeply concerned with social and political ideas

This biographical treatment of Albert Einstein accurately portrays him not as a detached physicist, but rather as a man deeply concerned with social and political ideas.

Newsreel footage shows him soon after he relocated to the United States after fleeing the Nazis in his native Germany. He became active in social causes (and is even seen at some lighthearted social events), and those who knew him reminisce about his development as a social thinker.

The film notes how Einstein’s fear … Ler mais

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Vídeo / Ciência e Tecnologia

Albert Einstein – Biografia

Biografia de Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (Ulm, 14 de Março de 1879 — Princeton, 18 de Abril de 1955) foi um físico teórico alemão radicado nos Estados Unidos.

100 físicos renomados elegeram-no, em 2009, o mais memorável físico de todos os tempos.

É conhecido por desenvolver a teoria da relatividade. Recebeu o Nobel de Física de 1921, pela correta explicação do efeito fotoeléctrico; no entanto, o prémio só foi anunciado em 1922. O seu trabalho teórico possibilitou o desenvolvimento da energia atómica, apesar de … Ler mais