Jo Roislien
As a kid I could sit for hours browsing through the Guinness Book of
World Records. And there, squeezed in among sports records, long
rivers and the world’s tallest man, was a number so large that I
still struggle to understand it. The world’s largest number. As a
kid I found this number magical and mystical. And as a grown-up
scientist I wanted to go back to my mathematical roots, bringing
curious viewers of all ages and backgrounds with me. “Chasing the
World’s Largest Number” is a personal, poetic and philosophic math
road trip through California, guiding the viewer through the mental
journey it is to grasp truly large numbers, via the universe, human
cells, travel planning and paradoxes of the infinite.