Journey into Maths Country
Documentary

Journey into Maths Country

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

2

Episodes

20

Language

French

Networks

arte.tv

Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
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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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