{"id":2446,"date":"2016-12-01T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2016-12-01T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T03:33:26","slug":"new-pbs-show-all-about-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2016\/12\/01\/new-pbs-show-all-about-math\/","title":{"rendered":"New PBS Show All About Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week PBS launched a new show on YouTube all about math called Infinite Series<\/a>. The first three episodes are up and they’re a ton of fun. The show is hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards<\/a>, who is a graduate student at Cornell studying probability theory and the 2016 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellow<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the first installation of the series, Houston-Edwards contemplates the sphere-packing problem<\/a>, something that we talked about over here a few months ago<\/a>. Aided by really cool animation and sound effects, she helps us to visualize spheres in higher dimensions and get a sense of how they might be packed. I especially liked her explanation of what happens when you pack spheres in more than 9 dimensions in a box. My mind — much like the sides of that box — was blown! <\/p>\n