BBC Focus Magazine

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Aug 3rd, '11, 20:31

Tonight Wednesday 3rd August, 9pm on BBC Two
Part 2: Shapes

Prof. Marcus du Sautoy takes a look at the mathematics behind shapes and nature.

I am rather annoyed at myself for having missed this one, apologies all round but here's the iPlayer link for part one. Numbers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e_Numbers/

by **Healerman** » Aug 6th, '11, 21:59

I'm not much into maths, but I thoroughly enjoyed this show.

I think I may also do what I never thought I would, and go take another look at the works of Jackson Pollock.

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Aug 10th, '11, 06:31

Episode 2 Shapes
Marcus du Sautoy uncovers the patterns that explain the shape of the world around us.
Available on iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... de_Shapes/

by **Doonhamer** » Aug 11th, '11, 13:05

This has to be the worst science series I have ever watched. Almost everything in it is completed obvious and anyone with even a passing interest in science will learn nothing new.
The lowlight was the woman from Google who was "amazed" that they had found a correlation between people searching for flu symptoms and actual levels of flu...Doh!
Oh, and the average of estimates from a large group of people is usually fairly accurate, well I'd never have known that!
We can model the way humans walk because they go at 1.3m/s and in straight lines, aaaarrrrgh...
He even managed to talk about the butterfly effect, Zzzzzz...
And geographical profiling of serial killers, heard about that years ago too.
All this talk about "the code", think Marcus needs to get out more.

by **The Beige Avenger** » Aug 11th, '11, 13:23

Agreed.

There's been a trend of style over substance at the BBC lately and this continues the trend.

by **Shadowwolf** » Aug 11th, '11, 14:10

...that they had found a correlation between people searching for flu symptoms and actual levels of flu...Doh!

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Aug 11th, '11, 14:53

I've been looking forward to catching up with this on my sky box.................... now I'm not so sure??

by **Lateralman** » Aug 12th, '11, 17:56

I really enjoyed the show and liked the concept of maths joining up all of the dots for everything.

Presumably, that will be the final episode.

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Aug 12th, '11, 20:15

Well episode 3 'Predictions' is on BBC Two 9pm tonight, Friday 12th August but you can catch up with all three programmes on the iPlayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zs6sl

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