00:00Throughout history, humankind has struggled to understand the fundamental workings of the material world.
00:07We've endeavored to discover the rules and patterns that determine the qualities of the objects that surround us,
00:14and their complex relationship to us and each other.
00:19Over thousands of years, societies all over the world have found that one discipline above all others
00:25yields certain knowledge about the underlying realities of the physical world.
00:30That discipline is mathematics.
00:34I'm Marcus de Soto, and I'm a mathematician.
00:38I see myself as a pattern soldier, hunting down hidden structures that lie behind the apparent chaos and complexity of
00:46the world around us.
00:48In my search for pattern order, I draw upon the work of the great mathematicians who've gone before me,
00:55people belonging to cultures across the globe, whose innovations created the language the universe is written in.
01:03I want to take you on a journey through time and space, and track the growth of mathematics,
01:09from its awakening to the sophisticated subject we know today.
01:14Using computer-generated imagery, we'll explore the trail-placing discoveries
01:19that allow the earliest civilizations to understand the world mathematically.
01:25This is the story of Marcus.
01:47Our world is made up of patterns and sequences.
01:51They're all around us.
01:54Day becomes night.
01:56Animals travel across the earth in ever-changing formations.
02:01Landscapes are constantly altering.
02:03The way that light bounces지는 batatons.
02:04The thing is, yes, has a middle-class mentality.
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