A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?
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Nicolas Bourbaki
Prof Marcus du Sautoy presents Nicolas Bourbaki, the mathematician that ...
Prof Marcus du Sautoy presents Nicolas Bourbaki, the mathematician that never was.
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Hardy and Ramanujan
GH Hardy, whose work inspired the millions of codes that ...
GH Hardy, whose work inspired the millions of codes that help to keep the internet safe.
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Henri Poincare
Marcus du Sautoy introduces the man whose mathematical insight gave ...
Marcus du Sautoy introduces the man whose mathematical insight gave rise to chaos theory.
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Georg Cantor
Prof Marcus du Sautoy introduces Georg Cantor and his theory ...
Prof Marcus du Sautoy introduces Georg Cantor and his theory of transfinite numbers.
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The Mathematicians Who Helped Einstein
The pioneering 19th-century mathematicians who helped Albert Einstein with his ...
The pioneering 19th-century mathematicians who helped Albert Einstein with his maths.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
How the Gaussian or normal distribution underpins modern medicine.
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Evariste Galois
How the maths begun by Evariste Galois describes the particles ...
How the maths begun by Evariste Galois describes the particles that make up our universe.
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Joseph Fourier
How Joseph Fourier's mathematics transformed our understanding of heat, light ...
How Joseph Fourier's mathematics transformed our understanding of heat, light and sound.
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Leonard Euler
How a solution to a 1700s conundrum enables us to ...
How a solution to a 1700s conundrum enables us to access information on the internet.
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Newton and Leibniz
An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to the ...
An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus.
