Journey into Maths Country

Name: Journey into Maths Country
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 8.5

Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we also find epic landscapes, dizzying ideas and even, sometimes, useful things!

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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Voyages au pays des maths

First Air Date

September 23, 2021

Last Air Date

October 10, 2023

Seasons

Episodes

Language

French

Production Companies

Les Films d'Ici ARTE GEIE Le Blob Les Films du poisson rouge

Networks

arte.tv

S02E10

Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?

Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false... Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in their own way to determine whether an algorithm could decide whether or not a mathematical assertion could be proved. The Entscheidungsproblem, the decision problem that rocked maths and, in the process, laid the foundations of computer science.

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