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.

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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.

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