Monthly Archive: Maio 2022

Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

16 de Maio de 2022

The Colours of Infinity

The Beauty and Power of Fractals

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

3 de Maio de 2022

Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani

A documentary film by George Csicsery about the Fields medalist and Iranian national hero

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. In 2014, she was both the first woman and the first Iranian to be honored by mathematics’ highest prize, the Fields Medal.

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

3 de Maio de 2022

Infinity

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, was one of the most interesting men our century has produced. As a very young man, he did theoretical work at Los Alamos on the project to develop an atomic bomb. In 1960, he gave a

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

3 de Maio de 2022

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

The story of a little‐known mathematician with no permanent job, working in complete isolation, and his important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread – a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation had made an important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang‘s techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group, and a further innovation by James Maynard.

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

2 de Maio de 2022

Adventures of a Mathematician

The true story behind the H-Bomb

The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.