Ted Ed Film: Axioms. The Building Blocks of Mathematics

Ted Ed Film: Axioms. The Building Blocks of
Mathematics -Jacqueline Doan and Alex
Kazachek
Synopsis: Consider this mathematician, with
her standard-issue infinitely sharp knife and a
perfect ball. She frantically slices and
distributes the ball into an infinite number of
boxes. She then recombines the parts into five
precise sections. Gently moving and rotating
these sections around, seemingly impossibly,
she recombines them to form two identical,
flawless, and complete copies of the original
ball. This is a result known in mathematics as
the Banach-Tarski paradox. The paradox here
is not in the logic or the proof – which are, like
the balls, flawless – but instead in the tension
between mathematics and our experience of
reality. To understand we need to examine the
foundation of every mathematical system:
axioms.

Director: Mads Lundgård
Approx. Length: Apprx. 04 min 49 sec
Approx. Release Date: Finish by 2023 Feb

Kortfilm omkring et matematisk paradoks baseret på forskning og visuelt formidlet gennem animation.

En animeret film på ca. 4min 49 sek til offentlig visning på den globale vidensdistributør www.ted.com.