Discusses Greek contributions to modern civilization, including art and architecture, democratic government, literature, mythology, science, mathematics, philosophy, and the Olympic games.

"Where does math come from? From a textbook? From rules? From deduction? From logic? Not really, Eugenia Cheng writes in Is Math Real?: it comes from curiosity, from instinctive human curiosity, "from people not being satisfied with answers and always wanting to understand more." And most importantly, she says, "it comes from questions": not from answering them, but from posing them. Nothing could seem more at odds from the way most of us were taught...

Professor Donald G. Saari of the University of California, Irvine, presents 24 lectures (ca. 30 min. each) showing the power of applying mathematical ideas across disciplines.