Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

The Endless Frontier of Number (1x24)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

Now that we've traversed the universe of number, we can look back and understand how the idea of number has changed and evolved. In this lecture, we'll get a sense of how mathematicians expand the frontiers of number, and we'll look at a couple of questions occupying today's number theorists—the Riemann Hypothesis and prime factorization.