Heptathlon consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it, but the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women. Nafissatou Thiam, representing Belgium, is the 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist and the 2017 World Champion. There is also a Tetradecathlon, which is a double heptathlon, consisting of 14 events, seven events per day. The heptathlon scoring system was devised by Dr Karl Ulbrich, a Viennese mathematician. The formulae are constructed so that, for each event, a designated "standard" performance (for example, approximately 1.82 m for the high
How Art Made the World do interesting things with the human form, such as distorting it in lawful ways," and examines the pioneering work of a sculptor and mathematician called Polyclitus, as exemplified in the Riace bronzes at the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia. Spivey concludes that "the first civilisation capable of realism had used exaggeration to go further, and it's that instinct which still dominates our world today." The second episode asks how the very first pictures ever made were created and reveals how images may have triggered the greatest change in human history. Dr. Spivey begins his investigation by travelling to the Cave