A Brief History of Mathematics

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A Brief History of Mathematics
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Descripción del podcast de A Brief History of Mathematics: Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.



Maths: 10 Nicolas Bourbaki
En el Podcast  A Brief History of Mathema.  en  Ciencia y naturaleza
14:36 min | hace 1 año
The mathematician that never was. Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes the life and mathematics of an elusive hero. The collect ed works of Bourbaki represents one of the most ambitious enterprises in mathematical history: an attempt to unify shapes and numbers into single discipline.
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Maths: 09 Hardy and Ramanujan
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14:18 min | hace 1 año
A mathematical romance. Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes how a passion for prime numbers united a Cambridge professor and an unknown Indian clerk.
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Maths: 08 Henri Poincare
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14:08 min | hace 1 año
An embarassing error and the mathematics of chaos. Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes how a mistake in Poincare's working le d him to an astonishing conclusion: some mathematical problems don't have a reliable solution.
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Maths: 07 Georg Cantor
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14:18 min | hace 1 año
Infinity. Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes the troubled life of this radical mathematician who shocked his colleagues by provi ng there's more than one infinity. With contributions from Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Roger Penrose.
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Maths: 06 The Mathematicians who helped Einstein
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13:53 min | hace 1 año
Seeing in four dimensions. Professor Marcus du Sautoy on the pioneers who pushed mathematics into new dimensions and the stran ge new geometries they created. Emeritus Professor Roger Penrose confirms that even Einstein sometimes struggled with his maths.
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Maths: 05 Carl Friedrich Gauss
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13:49 min | hace 1 año
The 19th century mathematical celebrity. Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes how a study of asteroids led Gauss to describe the n ormal distribution. With contributions from Chairman for the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips, who believes statistics are the most powerful weapon we have for fighting prejudice.
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Maths: 04 Evariste Galois
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13:43 min | hace 1 año
Professor Marcus du Sautoy on his favourite mathematician, an angry, young genius who did his best maths in prison and died in a duel, aged 20.
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Maths: 03 Joseph Fourier
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14:10 min | hace 1 año
Professor Marcus du Sautoy describes the life and mathematics of this Napoleonic soldier, with contributions from musician Brian E no who loves Fourier's analysis and uses it to create sounds that have never been heard before.
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Maths: 02 Leonard Euler
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13:32 min | hace 1 año
The man who calculated as other men breathe. Professor Marcus du Sautoy on the mathematical omnivore without whom no history of mathematics is complete.
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Maths: 01 Newton and Leibniz
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14:18 min | hace 1 año
The battle over the calculus. Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals how the great hero of British science is rather less gentlemanly than his German rival. An astronaut and investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus.
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Maths: Welcome
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00:14 min | hace 1 año
Welcome to this new BBC podcast. If you subscribe to the podcast feed, you should receive the first episode of this series automat ically within the next seven days. To find other podcasts from the BBC, visit www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts.
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