African Metropolis
A father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. A father and his son leave in quest of Zero. An initiatory quest for a mos…
African Metropolis
A father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. A father and his son leave in quest of Zero. An initiatory quest for a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. Invented by the Indians, launched by the Arabs, Zero set out for the Western world which showed some reluctance to adopt it. From Delhi to Tachkent, from Baghdad to Alexandria, from Kairouan to Carthage, Zero did not content itself with the East to exist, cross the Mediterranean and transform the world. The entire world is indebted to Islamic science for transmitting Zero and consequently Arabic figures, but also for inventing decimals and algebra. More still than China and India, Islam approached modern experimentation. The Islamic mathematicians collected a large mass of observations, making use of Greek and Persian sources and also refining the Ptolemaic parameters. They developed optics and designed planetary models that were confirmed by the research work of Copernicus. This documentary series plunges us right into the heart of Mediterranean and Eastern ways of thought and highlights the scientific approach in Islam. "ZERO !" retraces the itinerary of the Zero figure while at the same time enlightening the shared history of civilizations. —Claudine RABAA and Christian SERANOT A father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. The two characters are going to involve us in their journey, an erudite investigation that will lead us into the past and hence throughout the world and throughout time.Around Zero - an essential concept for the development of mathematical thought - the world of Science lived through centuries of controversies and fights. We will thus follow Zero from the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world to India and from Central Asia to Bagdad and the Islamic world, from the Maghreb to Andalusia and Western Europe.
African Metropolis
Comedy,Drama,Romance
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A father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. A father and his son leave in quest of Zero.
An initiatory quest for a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs. Invented by the Indians, launched by the Arabs, Zero set out for the Western world which showed some reluctance to adopt it.
From Delhi to Tachkent, from Baghdad to Alexandria, from Kairouan to Carthage, Zero did not content itself with the East to exist, cross the Mediterranean and transform the world. The entire world is indebted to Islamic science for transmitting Zero and consequently Arabic figures, but also for inventing decimals and algebra. More still than China and India, Islam approached modern experimentation.
The Islamic mathematicians collected a large mass of observations, making use of Greek and Persian sources and also refining the Ptolemaic parameters. They developed optics and designed planetary models that were confirmed by the research work of Copernicus. This documentary series plunges us right into the heart of Mediterranean and Eastern ways of thought and highlights the scientific approach in Islam.
"ZERO !" retraces the itinerary of the Zero figure while at the same time enlightening the shared history of civilizations. —Claudine RABAA and Christian SERANOT A father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs.
The two characters are going to involve us in their journey, an erudite investigation that will lead us into the past and hence throughout the world and throughout time.Around Zero - an essential concept for the development of mathematical thought - the world of Science lived through centuries of controversies and fights. We will thus follow Zero from the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world to India and from Central Asia to Bagdad and the Islamic world, from the Maghreb to Andalusia and Western Europe..