Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes

Journey into Maths Country Season 2 Episode 6

Overview:
To begin with, there are the five "Platonic solids" beloved of geometers: the cube, the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron. But why stop at the 3 dimensions of ordinary space?

Alicia Boole Stott has devoted her life to finding regular solids in dimension 4... and she's found them! A journey into unsuspected mathematical regions.

Genre : Documentary

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Release Date : 2023-10-10

Duration : 10 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 2)

The Monty Hall Problem
1. The Monty Hall Problem
Simpson's Paradox
2. Simpson's Paradox
Non-Euclidean Geometries
3. Non-Euclidean Geometries
Planar Tessellations
4. Planar Tessellations
Graph Theory
5. Graph Theory
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
6. Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
7. The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
8. Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
9. Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
10. Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?

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