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  • This show has really interesting and exciting content, but the concept of the "underlying code" just makes it feel a wee bit silly. If you can ignore that, it's a great documentary.

    I do give them kudos for their use of math in storytelling.
  • Oxford Mathematics Professor Marcus du Sautoy examines the numbers and formulae that govern the world around us.

    So-so. Should have been quite interesting but instead largely consisted of hyping up basic physics into something earth-shatteringly profound. Unless you've never done high school science, physics or maths, many of the 'revelations' are things you already know and take for granted, e.g. gravity, pi (and its significance in circles).

    Maybe it is because I have a mathematical background (Masters degree in Statistics), but just about everything seemed dumbed down. Even to the point where du Sautoy dumbs down the science itself, e.g. using speed instead of velocity in one example. Maybe that was the target audience - people who don't know much about science or maths.

    Not that it's all unedifying. There are some parts that are genuinely new and interesting, e.g. patterns and codes in nature. The nautilus's shell and the swallows' flying pattern were quite interesting.
  • MildBunch129 February 2020
    Highly enjoyable to me. It brought to mind some things I had learned many years ago and rejuvenated my strong interest in numbers and patterns. Thanks to all of you who made "The Code" -2011- possible.
  • So much information out there but hen there are shows like this that will enhance your thinking, Taking pieces of information and putting them together into one thought. It is fantastic, Some people reviewing this does not see the ignorance they succumb on google, they think they are superior and then forget there are people out there that do not act or search for information like them. Shame on those reviewers that has caused this show to cancel. I would of loved to see 10 seasons of information coming together especially spacial, astronomical and ancient Cambodian, India temples and how they where built mathematically. There is so much people do not know from those 3rd world country that can teach a person like me that has 4 masters degrees.
  • They had a lot of good information and made some interesting points, however, they didn't really get into depth. They would address a subject and explain it but then just jumped to the next topic. It was almost inconclusive. Just a bunch of random info with no real point or main focus
  • djurrepower5 October 2020
    4/10
    nope
    Its fine on some subjects, but mostly its just a scrambled mess. some topics are not well explained, or just quickly glossed over. and the editing is typically bad of low budget ducumentaries.

    4/10: didnt enjoy
  • Warning: Spoilers
    The concept is interesting, but the information doesn't feel well-researched or deep. Or at least, some subjects could have been discussed with professionals in the matter. A mathematician may not know much about things like music theory for instance.

    The thing is, that documentary is wrong about ratios in music. 3/2 ratio is only in Just Intonation, starting with the 3-limit system (Pythagorean system) which we haven't really used for centuries because following a sequence of fifths, we will never get to the same note. There will always be what we call a "wolf fifth", which sounds very unpleasant. Other tuning systems have been used since, such as 5-limit, 7-limit (Harry Partch), 11-limit and 13-limit just intonation (Ben Johnston), well-temperament, mean-tone temperament, among many others. Our current most widespread (not only) system has equal semi-tones, which is why we call it "Equal temperament. And since music follows a logarithmic pattern (for every octave, we double the frequency), the actual distance between a note and the next is 2^(1/12). Meaning an actual fifth by today's usual tuning is 2^(7/12) which is admittedly close to 3/2, but is anything but a simple ratio. A fourth is 2^(5/12) Intervals sound good to us mainly because we got used to them.

    About 3/2, what we could talk about here is resonance rather than actual current music theory, as it is a fifth in just intonation.
  • The series has in parts a nice atmosphere and some points are indeed interesting. But when the protagonist told you the 7th time that the cooodeee is everywhere, but has not made a deeper anysis of any example, it starts getting boring.
  • Hi team,

    Please present the correct information as the tree branches are divides as per the Fibonacci series, like 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on... please cross check your research. Fibonacci sequence is everywhere!

    Thanks, Krish.