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Title Invented or Discovered?
Published Ideas Roadshow, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes) : .flv file, sound
Summary Three theoretical physicists (Freeman Dyson, Artur Ekert, Nima Arkani-Hamed) and one philosopher (James Robert Brown) reflect on different aspects of “mathematical Platonism” - the belief that numbers and mathematical concepts somehow have an existence independent of space, time, and us
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Artur Ekert, Freeman Dyson, Howard Burton, James Robert Brown, Nima Arkani-Hamed
Event Originally produced by Ideas Roadshow in 2017
Notes In English
Subject Mathematics.
Physics.
Philosophy and religion.
applied mathematics.
mathematics.
physics.
Mathematics.
Philosophy and religion.
Physics.
Genre/Form Education films.
Form Streaming video
Author Burton, Howard, film director
Ekert, Artur, actor
Dyson, Freeman, actor
Burton, Howard, actor
Robert Brown, James, actor
Arkani-Hamed, Nima, actor
Ideas Roadshow (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm)