The film was a life-changer. From mind
boggling questions of the early civilization, we came by at an idea on how to
solve it by recognizing its patterns not only applied in marketing and in
economy but on daily life basis.
Our life is all
about patterns, indeed Mathematics was the study of patterns. We can evidently
it track down when the Egyptians were puzzled on how seasons changes, on how
often the river Nile floods. From these, they devised and applied this
information to solve trade problems therby giving the birth of some useful
mathematical operations; a decimal system based on the fingers on the hands,
the unusual method for multiplication and division.
Time is gold as
they say so as its discovery. Babylonians have discovered the Babylonian base 60
number system by observing and recording their observation on shadows casted by
the sundial, which is also their instrument, on different sun angles - so it is
thanks to the Babylonians that we have 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes
in an hour. Equality and justice was prized by Babylonians, these could be
accounted on their amazing division of land by just using imaginary squares and
rectangles to measure their land not knowingly they discovered another
mathematical equation, the quadratic equation.
Finally, the
Greeks are the true founders of maths – they were the inventors of proof, which
opened up to other sciences and are as used today.
I think
Mathematics is an accessible program, since it is a field that builds on its
past and becomes increasingly complex.
I have two
criticisms and it’s nothing to do with the show. It is just small but the
computer graphics used to illustrate his narrations were absolutely terrible. He
was sent flying around on slices of Pyramid and hot air balloons, I found it
increasingly difficult to concentrate on what he was saying, as all I could
think about was how cheap and cheesy looking the animations were. Seriously,
they would not have looked out of place a decade ago. It seems silly to knock
the program for this reason, but production values are an important part of
getting your message across, and doing it badly just doesn’t help. Secondly,
his language is too foreign and I can’t cope up when talks fast. Better use
some subtitles: D
The documentary has been shot 2008.. not much quite a lot of proper computer graphics.. Know what I'm sayin'? xD
ReplyDeleteWell its right that you have to do better when your spreading out your message. So far, the animations on the film is the best they've got and it had got your attention. They are just plain "pangit" but there, they've got you noticing it. Thus, they had relayed much of their message to you.
ReplyDeleteAnd, about the "proof" part, its absolutely right! :)