How to understand without any calculation or equation some of Mathematics Concepts such as the 4th Dimension, the Complex Numbers, the “Fibration” from the Mathematician Heinz Hopf and the Stereographic Projection of the great Mathematician Bernhard Riemann if you’re a poet or even a non-poet who never got any points in maths?
By watching this fantastic 3D movie produced by Étienne Ghys, CNRS senior researcher, working at the ENS-Lyon, Jos Leys, Engineer turned computer graphics enthusiast, specializing in mathematical imagery from Belgium and Aurélien Alvarez, graduate PhD student in Ghys’ lab at the ENS-Lyon.
Take 2 hours of your time and watch this 9-chapter movie online or at least 15min a day for each chapter!!
It is simply amazing!!
Watch it in English, or in French, or in Spanish or in Arabic language.
Or download it and watch it. The movie is under Creative Commons license.
You will find also on the website more details on each chapter.
source: Dimensions
For my friend ChAP, with whom I had some long & interesting discussions on Topology…
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