Review by: Denzelle Freya Del Puerto
MST 3
The Frontiers of Space
Just when
you thought The Story of Maths’ only
up till episode 2, there’s more to come! Episode 3, The Frontiers of Space
tackles about the development of mathematics in European context.
In this
programme, Marcus examined the astonishing properties of
prime numbers discovered by Pierre Fermat, whose legendary Last Theorem would
puzzle mathematicians for more than 350 years. He also showed the famous Fermat’s
theorems which are the basis of the modern coded which protects credit card
transactions on the internet! So it primarily acts as. He looked at Isaac
Newton’s development of calculus in England. Who is Newton, that was his
question to Europeans he meet in front of Newton’s monument, “Newton developed
calculus and made a crucial understanding on the behavoir of objects”, they
said. Marcus du Sautoy visits France to look at the
work of René Descartes, one of the great philosophers, who realised that
there’s a connection between algebra and geometry.
I agree on Sautoy’s insight on the possibility for curve lines to be described as equations. If so, along with its applications, mathematics adds another breakthrough in discovering many secrets installed in the universe.
Even
paintings with application of mathematics can deceive what we perceive. As
3Dimensional objects that intersect at one common point, the beautiful history
of mathematics never cease to amaze me. The brilliant thinking of
mathematicians has greatly changed the world as we see it today. From written
scripts of great thinkers, to applications of the modern world, there is no
limit to what humans can do with mathematics with other disciplines.
Viewers like
us need to thank Sautoy in bringing to life a complex history of mathematics. Mathematics may be tiring for students (like us) but I
may ask, what is life without math?
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