A Brief History of Mathematics
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A Brief History of Mathematics
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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10 episodesNicolas Bourbaki
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of...
Hardy and Ramanujan
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of...
Henri Poincaré
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of...
Georg Cantor
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of...
The Mathematicians Who Helped Einstein
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of...
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: German mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gaus.
This ten part hi...
Evariste Galois
Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: mathematics during the French Revolution.
This ten part h...
Joseph Fourier
Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: Joseph Fourier’s insightful maths.
This ten part history of...
Leonhard Euler
Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: Leonhard Euler and an 18th-century puzzle.
This ten-part hi...
Newton and Leibniz
Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: Newton, Leibniz and calculus.
This ten-part histor...