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Movie Review on The Story of Maths: Genius of the East

Welcome aboard! The second episode of the Story of Maths takes us to Middle East and China. Driven by curiosity, the narrator delved into the challenges of time pushed by the numbers along. Tracking down as to what Mathematics will tell us this time with accompany of incomprehensible language and a sleepy head. Enjoy!

As the dawn of the Western decline, the east continued to progress and reach new heights. First stop is China where the Asians (in a racist view) live. Evidently enough, mathematics have progressed and evolved through time in the construction of Great Wall of China. Engineering, in this early age, makes him more curious about the foundations of Math in this place. The concept of numerology was very important to their society, in addition to the practical aspects .He discovered the use of decimal place number system by illustrating fruits and their belief on the mystical power of numbers, which exist today. Numbers that can make magic? Interesting…

He also learned the Emperors hidden secret, on how he manages to sleep with every girls in his kingdom or what we call harem. With this, succession of his “royal blood” can be passed on to generation to generation. I wonder if he had the dominant trait of being “singkit”. Just asking.

This information didn’t die off for no good reason. Thanks to this decimal system, internet cryptography or the humor of ‘internet privacy” and “username-password thing” came in place and this is why hackers exist nowadays, but yeah torrents are good anyway.

In India, he discovered the “O thing” or what we call the number zero, a breakthrough in the development of mathematics. He examined their Mathematics and was introduced to the new concepts of infinity and negative numbers, and their invention of trigonometry.

Overall, the movie is still boring in the sense that the words are incomprehensible. A great movie though if it only have subtitles. Sorry language illiterate here.