A Álgebra é generosa; ela frequentemente dá mais do que aquilo que lhe é pedido. (D'Alembert)
“Eu sou um matemático e gostaria de subir no seu telhado.”
Foi assim que Ron Eglash cumprimentou várias famílias africanas enquanto pesquisava os padrões africanos de fractais que descobriu por todo o continente.
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No TED2010, o matemático Benoit Mandelbrot desenvolve um tema que discutiu primeiramento no TED em 1984 — a complexidade extrema da rugosidade, e o modo como a matemática fractal pode encontrar organização em padrões que parecem desconhecidamente complicados.
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L’impressionnante liste des lauréats du Prix Nobel montre ce que la pensée scientifique, occidentale d’abord puis mondiale, a produit de plus performant au service de la connaissance. L’histoire de ces éminents savants, tels Einstein, Pierre et Marie Curie, Pavlov, Flemming, etc. c’est l’histoire du XXe …
The story of Nobel Prize winning mathematician 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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Desafios / Divulgação / Matemática
O que está errado neste relógio de sol?
14 Out, 2018
