What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.

Nine chapters, two hours of math that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! The film can be enjoyed by anyone, provided the chapters are well-chosen. There are 9 chapters, each 13 minutes long. Chapters 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8 are double chapters, but apart...

Nine chapters, two hours of math that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! The film can be enjoyed by anyone, provided the chapters are well-chosen. There are 9 chapters, each 13 minutes long. Chapters 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8 are double chapters, but apart...

Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Mathematics in a child's animation.

Ray Kurzweil in the Singularity is Near argues that science and technology are creating change so dramatic that it qualifies as a singularity or point at which all the rules change This video poem speculates about the implications in the light of my ideas about the evolution of consciousness and...

Documentary tracing the story of the Islamic Moors and the society they ruled in Southern Spain for some seven hundred years. Looks at their society, buildings, and culture, and the hospitals and libraries they built, the latter containing many classical Greek texts. Also considers their advanced...

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He...

The Tao symbols of yin and yang are similar to those adopted in physics and mathematics: opposites, affirmation and negation ofthe same concepì or, again, being and not being. The Tao symbols appear as a decoded binary System for thè human mina, as it were thè genette code ofthe consciousness...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of...