Production: Pablo Cantudo
Eduardo is a doctor in Mathematics, teacher, researcher, founding member of the group Big Van Científicos Sobre Ruedas and creator of Derivando, the most popular YouTube channel dedicated to this discipline. In addition, Eduardo collaborates in various media and is the host of the Órbita Laika program on TVE.
Sáenz de Cabezón has just published a new book calledMathematical apocalypse, which contains several fun revelations about mathematics, among many other informative and entertaining curiosities. In this interview, you will try to quench our thirst for knowledge, fueled by curiosity
Mathematics is often spoken of as the tool we use to understand the universe, although mathematics is something very human, it is a language. Just as we say that language shapes reality, how did the development of mathematics help humans to describe the world around them and to progress as a species?
To what extent is mathematics a universal language? Namely; If we contacted another civilization, could we communicate with them through mathematics? Would the human being have evolved differently if the mathematical language had been another?
The golden number is one of the most interesting numbers in nature, how does it appear in her and even in ourselves, in human beings? Speaking of famous numbers, definitely mention the number Pi, three fourteen. There is even a Pi Day, March 14, which is also a coincidental date on which many things relevant to science happened (Albert Einstein is born, Stephen Hawking dies, Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente is born and dies …) . There is even a planet Pi, in whose orbital period this famous figure also intervenes.
Some theorems or conjectures that are decades or even hundreds of years old are still unsolved; Will we see the solutions soon?
Mathematics seems, a priori, a fairly static discipline but, as we can see, it is not. What interesting new lines of research are open right now? Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers these and other questions in this talk from Planet Muy.
