Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour-a provocativeexploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries.We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell,the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of asunflower. Math was essential to everything from the firstwireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery ofthe Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars.Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorfulcast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, followmath from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads tothe ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discoveryof the language of the universe?.
