What do Nobel Prize winner and Donald Duck have in common?

Bertrand Russell who was a British renaissance man - philosopher, historian, social critic, mathematician, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - wrote in his books:

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics." (Conquest of Happiness)

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." (The Study of Mathematics)

Here are few amazing videos where the old Donald Duck and the young math whiz share the obsessive, captivating, mysterious, applicative and beautiful math.

Share this 7 min clip from the old Disney Donald in Mathmagic Land with your elementary school kids:





And this Math Doodling will fascinate and inspire even your teenagers:



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