A Brief History of Mathematics

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.

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A Brief History of Mathematics

Episodes (10)

Oct 1, 2010 Nicolas Bourbaki
Oct 1, 2010 Hardy and Ramanujan
Sep 30, 2010 Henri Poincaré

A Brief History of Mathematics

Oct 1, 2010
15½ minutes
13 MB

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Today, the mathematician that never was, Nicolas Bourbaki. A group of French mathematicians, working between the two world wars and writing under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki transformed their discipline and paved the way for several mathematical breakthroughs in the 21...

A Brief History of Mathematics

Nicolas Bourbaki

BBC Radio 4 Extra

00:00 -14:36