Playlist · 55 episodes

Shapes & proofs

A sheet of paper, a compass, a pair of scissors: geometry is a manual art before being a textbook chapter — and the origami crane trisects the angle that the ruler will never reach.

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Episodes (55)

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Sagrada Família: the 7.5-metre pattern uncovered
Jul 13, 2026 · 6 min
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When playing cards trained sailors and engineers Premium
Jul 3, 2026 · 23 min
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Archimedes: Tracing the Lost Leaf Found in Blois
Jun 29, 2026 · 6 min
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Vedic altars: when ritual becomes geometry Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 20 min
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Gothic cathedrals: the geometry hidden in their windows Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 22 min
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Pascal: thinking about maths and faith through figures Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 16 min
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Leibniz: can we calculate the best possible world? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 12 min
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Descartes: why did his science need God?
Jun 8, 2026 · 26 min
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Newton: why does absolute space lead to the divine? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 20 min
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The vanishing point: why hide it in sacred paintings? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 22 min
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Qibla: does a round Earth challenge our flat maps? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 21 min
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Two tori: when local measurements fall short
Apr 23, 2026 · 6 min
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Mercator: does Africa look too small on our world maps? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 20 min
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Polygons on a grid: why only the square works Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 21 min
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Can a line avoid every point with integer coordinates? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 22 min
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Discrete grids: why can a minimal generating set be huge? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 18 min
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Is a line made of pixels really a straight line? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 18 min
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Nine points, infinitely many cubics? The Euler–Cramer inquiry Premium
Feb 14, 2026 · 21 min
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Gabriel Cramer: two appendices that left a mark on algebra Premium
Feb 14, 2026 · 23 min
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Gabriel Cramer: reading a curve’s shape from its equation Premium
Feb 13, 2026 · 21 min

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