I've come to really hate Nova (including The Great Math Mystery). Because they claim to be about science, but Nova very rarely has any significant amount of science; it's 98% technology. I don't have anything against technology (depending on the specifics). But I totally hate the almost complete absence of science. As for the math program that Mike B. liked — Indeed it has a lot of whiz-bang computer graphics. Unfortunately, it *settles* for *just* having lots of eye candy but conveys almost no actual understanding of anything. Which is also typical of most of the Brian Greene physics programs that have been on Nova as well. —Dan
From: Mike Beeler <mikebeeler2@gmail.com>
This was the subject of a PBS Nova episode, “The Great Math Mystery”, originally aired 4/15/2015 and rebroadcast last Wednesday 3/28/2018. It mentions Fibonacci spirals, gravitation, Maxwell’s equations, prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson, etc. as evidence that math is real. fMRI scans of people doing math problems, and experiments showing various animals have an ability to distinguish “number” (more things here than there). Unlikely to convince an esteemed anyone, but a nice assembly of well known anecdotes, and good eye candy.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html>