The Quest to Predict the Future

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 41 Episode 5

Overview:
Mathematics is the ultimate fortune teller. It can predict if a new plane design will make it off the ground. It can plan the path of a spacecraft so it passes close to every planet on its journey through the solar system. But some of nature's equations are more tricky. Why is weather so hard to forecast? How will world populations evolve? The mathematics of chaos theory helps explain why problems like these are so challenging.

Genre : Documentary

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Release Date : 2006-12-29

Duration : 39 menit

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1. The Curious Incident of the Never-ending Numbers
The Story of the Elusive Shapes
2. The Story of the Elusive Shapes
The Secret of the Winning Streak
3. The Secret of the Winning Streak
The Case of the Uncrackable Code
4. The Case of the Uncrackable Code
The Quest to Predict the Future
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