{"id":193,"date":"2012-02-24T17:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2015-11-16T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:06:39","slug":"mathematical-mystery-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/mathematical-mystery-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mathematical Mystery Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/A-Mathematical-Mystery-Tour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" title=\"A Mathematical Mystery Tour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/A-Mathematical-Mystery-Tour-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"A Mathematical Mystery Tour\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/A-Mathematical-Mystery-Tour-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/A-Mathematical-Mystery-Tour-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/A-Mathematical-Mystery-Tour.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Mathematical Mystery Tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fascinating BBC Horizon programme from 1984 looking at the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics including Fermat&#8217;s Last Therom (<strong><a title=\"Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/fermats-last-theorem\/\">since solved<\/a><\/strong>), The Goldback Conjecture, The Riemann hypothesis, the P=NP Problem, and more. Featuring interviews with many modern mathematicians, this documentary also looks at the history of maths and some of if it&#8217;s major players from Euclid to <strong><a title=\"Bertrand Russell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/index.php\/bertrand-russell-interview\/\">Bertrand Russell<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In discussing the fact that proof requires more than calculated verification reference is made to the <strong><a title=\"Mertens Conjecture - 'The Press Courier' newspaper article from 1984\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=6iNKAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=NSINAAAAIBAJ&amp;dq=mertens%20conjecture&amp;pg=6236%2C1805788\" target=\"_blank\">Merten Conjecture<\/a><\/strong>. A conjecture which was disproved in 1984, despite holding firm for 99 years and having been verified on computer up to the first 10 billion numbers. Afact that makes us think about the things in our own lives which, with far less evidence, we consider to be certainties.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Mathematical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PUDQ3ypFhew\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating BBC Horizon programme from 1984 looking at the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics including Fermat&#8217;s Last Therom (since solved), The Goldback Conjecture, The Riemann hypothesis, the P=NP Problem, and more. Featuring interviews with many modern mathematicians, this documentary also looks at the history of maths and some of if it&#8217;s major players from Euclid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,155],"tags":[47,24,60,59],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maths","category-toppicks","tag-bertrand-russell","tag-fermat","tag-merten-conjecture","tag-riemann-hypothesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}