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Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths
2018 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?
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Dr. Hannah Fry's 3-part BBC documentary series, "Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths," explores this very question in the first episode, "Numbers As God."
The episode description reads: "Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language, or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bn6wtp
She interviews a number of prominent mathematicians and scientists, such as Brian Greene, and they certainly don't agree one way or the other in the invented/discovered question.
(Alas, I now see that the series is listed as unavailable on the BBC site but I watched it, I think on Amazon Prime or maybe youtube.)