Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. It underpins so much of the modern world that it's hard to imagine life without its technological advances.
EPISODE 1
Numbers as God
Hannah goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks to find out why they were so fascinated by the connection between beautiful music and maths. The patterns our ancestors found in music are all around us, from the way a sunflower stores its seeds to the number of petals in a flower.
EPISODE 2
Expanded Horizons
Hannah travels down the fastest zip wire in the world to learn more about Newton's ideas on gravity. His discoveries revealed the movement of the planets was regular and predictable. James Clerk Maxwell unified the ideas of electricity and magnetism, and explained what light was.
EPISODE 3
Weirder and Weirder
Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern maths, discovered by Bertrand Russell, which undermines the very foundations of logic that all of maths is built on. These flaws suggest that maths isn't a true part of the universe but might just be a human language, fallible and imprecise.
Hannah Fry
Dan Kendall
Graeme Thomson
