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Since the third part of the series did a huge turn towards Europe, Marcus Sautoy then continued to scour the European continent in search of the remnants from the golden age for mathematics. 

In this said “golden age” were the infamous 23 important mathematical questions David Hilbert introduced to challenge the up and coming 21^st century mathematics to build structural mathematical principles for the modern maths. This I think is a very logical way to start the journey which the last part of the series sought to answer - the concept of infinity.

In the film, a lot of famous people were mentioned to emphasize who dared battle the 23 questions. Then again, there were those who consciously gave up on it. Stated also were the geniuses who contributed a lot to the realization of the infinite series.

One thing admirable about the film was Kurt Godel issue which shattered the dreams of the Hilbert questions. He has been a very strong water-loo for the whole mathematics stronghold but on the latter, became a very intellectual piece for the strengthening the essence of math once again.

Further, aside from the complete dominance of male mathematicians throughout history, it is amazing to have heard great things from the women’s league. Especially to have known the first president of the American Mathematical Society, Julia Robinson was a great standing point for us especially to make us realize that women are equally brilliant in math like men (BUT MEN SHALL PREVAIL! :P).

Lastly, the realization to the possibility of Hilbert’s 10^th question was the most intriguing part of the film which considered Robinson’s theory and the person who capture the famous Fibonacci sequence of numbers and solved the 10^th question at 22 years old.

The whole 4-part series was a great bummer to have ended. It was the only documentary to have really captured the history of maths and how math evolved to be the universal language that everyone could understand. This film really makes its viewers realize how really unimaginable this world could be without mathematics aiding us. And also how math could have been established if not for those brilliant minds who devoted their time and effort to the realization of math’s pillars.

Marcus, the speaker, being a mathematician himself really gave justice to what he and the film wants to offer to its audience – another way to appreciate math. I am guessing that every one of us needed a new perspective when approaching math (unless you are a mathematician yourself) and this film sure knows the alternative. A big hooray for all the people behind this film and I could not have asked for anything better than this unless future people could come up with a sci-fi 3D film about math then that would be really amazing beyond reason.