Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

A Bew Breed of Numbers (1x19)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

Pythagoreans found irrational numbers not only counterintuitive but threatening to their world-view. In this lecture, we'll get acquainted with—and use—some numbers that we may find equally bizarre: p-adic numbers. We'll learn a new way of looking at number, and about a lens through which all triangles become isosceles.