Name: Math is forever
Uploaded: 2015-04-07T15:53:05Z
Duration: 9 min 31 s
Description: With humor and charm, mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers a question that's wracked the brains of bored students the world over: What is math for? He shows the beauty of math as the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish, with English subtitles.

In fact, if you would like to cover the distance from the Earth to the sun by folding a 0.1-millimeter piece of paper, 50 folds gets you close to the sun, but not quite, and 51 folds gets you way beyond the sun. But saying you should fold a piece of paper "50 point something times” would have sounded strange!

With humor and charm, mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers a question that's wracked the brains of bored students the world over: What is math for? He shows the beauty of math as the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón: Math is forever

Math is forever

Hexagons and the honeycomb theorem—math's eternal truths outshine diamonds, proving the best shapes in nature and design.

To express eternal love, skip the diamonds—gift a theorem, the pinnacle of permanence and a testament to timeless affection.

Discovering math's role in controlling intuition and harnessing creativity, proving theorems shape our understanding of the universe.