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Ended · 2016–2018

Infinite Series

Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards offers ambitious content for viewers that are eager to attain a greater understanding of the world around them. Math is pervasive - a robust yet precise language - and with each episode you'll begin to see the math that underpins everything in this puzzling, yet fascinating, universe.

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Season 1 · 0 episodes
    Season 2016 · 6 episodes
    1. S2016 E01 · A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
    2. S2016 E02 · Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
    3. S2016 E03 · How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
    4. S2016 E04 · A Hierarchy of Infinities
    5. S2016 E05 · Can You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
    6. S2016 E06 · Can We Hear Shapes?
    Season 2017 · 43 episodes
    1. S2017 E01 · When Pi is Not 3.14
    2. S2017 E02 · Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
    3. S2017 E03 · Singularities Explained
    4. S2017 E04 · Kill the Mathematical Hydra
    5. S2017 E05 · How Infinity Explains the Finite
    6. S2017 E06 · The Mathematics of Quantum Computers
    7. S2017 E07 · Splitting Rent with Triangles
    8. S2017 E08 · Infinite Chess
    9. S2017 E09 · 5 Unusual Proofs
    10. S2017 E10 · Proving Pick's Theorem
    11. S2017 E11 · What is a Random Walk?
    12. S2017 E12 · Solving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
    13. S2017 E13 · Can We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
    14. S2017 E14 · How to Break Cryptography
    15. S2017 E15 · Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
    16. S2017 E16 · Building an Infinite Bridge
    17. S2017 E17 · Topology Riddles
    18. S2017 E18 · The Devil's Staircase
    19. S2017 E19 · Dissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
    20. S2017 E20 · Pantographs and the Geometry of Complex Functions
    21. S2017 E21 · Voting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
    22. S2017 E22 · Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
    23. S2017 E23 · Network Mathematics and Rival Factions
    24. S2017 E24 · Making Probability Mathematical
    25. S2017 E25 · Why Computers are Bad at Algebra
    26. S2017 E26 · The Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
    27. S2017 E27 · Stochastic Supertasks
    28. S2017 E28 · Your Brain as Math - Part 1
    29. S2017 E29 · Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math Part 2
    30. S2017 E30 · Your Mind Is Eight-Dimensional - Your Brain as Math Part 3
    31. S2017 E31 · How the Axiom of Choice Gives Sizeless Sets
    32. S2017 E32 · Higher-Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe
    33. S2017 E33 · The Cops and Robbers Theorem
    34. S2017 E34 · How Many Cops to Catch a Robber?
    35. S2017 E35 · How to Generate Pseudorandom Numbers
    36. S2017 E36 · Crisis in the Foundation of Mathematics
    37. S2017 E37 · Hilbert's 15th Problem: Schubert Calculus
    38. S2017 E38 · The Heat Equation + Special Announcement!
    39. S2017 E39 · The Multiplication Multiverse
    40. S2017 E40 · Associahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
    41. S2017 E41 · (Almost) Unbreakable Crypto
    42. S2017 E42 · This Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
    43. S2017 E43 · Topology vs 'a' Topology
    Season 2018 · 14 episodes
    1. S2018 E01 · The Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
    2. S2018 E02 · Proving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
    3. S2018 E03 · Beyond the Golden Ratio
    4. S2018 E04 · How to Divide by 'Zero'
    5. S2018 E05 · Telling Time on a Torus
    6. S2018 E06 · What Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
    7. S2018 E07 · What are Numbers Made of?
    8. S2018 E08 · What was Fermat's 'Marvelous' Proof?
    9. S2018 E09 · The Geometry of SET
    10. S2018 E10 · How Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
    11. S2018 E11 · Unraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
    12. S2018 E12 · Defining Infinity
    13. S2018 E13 · Instant Insanity Puzzle
    14. S2018 E14 · The Assassin Puzzle

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