The Frontiers of Space--A Review

The Story of Maths: The Frontiers of Space was a delight to watch. In this episode of The Story of Maths, Du Sautoy was able to show the viewers how math was used in art. He visited a museum, I think, where the artwork "The Flagellation of Christ" could be found. It was very calculated, the way it was made. As a person who aspires to become an Artist, I would love to master the technique in making realistic paintings such as that one. Math was used for persectives in paintings and drawings before and it still is today. There are exhibits all over the world with those kinds of visual illusions. There is one in Manila that I have yet to visit.

He was also able to vivit the homelands of well known mathematecians likes Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, and the Bernoulli family. Descartes was born in France. The name of the town he grew up in was changed to La Haye-Descartes, in honor of him. Sir Isaac Newton was born in the country of Lincolnshire. The interesting thing about the town he grew up in, as shown in the documentary, was that almost no one from his hometown knew that he was also a mathematician. Most of them only knew about his contributions in Physics. The Bernoulli family is well-known for a long line of great mathematicians. They lived in Basel, Switzerland. 

He also discussed about the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, the battle over who really discovered calculus.

The Story of Maths is not over yet. There is one more episode that I haven't seen but so far the episodes I have seen were all very interesting. The last episode may be equally or even more interesting.