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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.

    Jun 25, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 24, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 23, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 22, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 21, 2010 Read more
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    Carl Friedrich Gauss

    How the Gaussian or normal distribution underpins modern medicine.

    Jun 18, 2010
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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.

    Jun 17, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 16, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 15, 2010 Read more
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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.

    Jun 14, 2010 Read more
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