
Description
This programme looks at the writing of Euclid's Elements 2,300 years ago and its legacy.
This programme looks at the writing of Euclid's Elements 2,300 years ago and its legacy.
Module code and title: | MA290, Topics in the history of mathematics |
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Item code: | MA290; 01; 1987 |
First transmission date: | 1987 |
Published: | 1987 |
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Duration: | 00:24:17 |
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Producer: | Glan Thomas |
Contributor: | Graham Flegg |
Publisher: | BBC Open University |
Keyword(s): | Ancient Greece; Euclid; Eudoxus; Hippocrates of Chios; Proof; Pythagoras; Rhind Papyrus; Thales; Theaetetus; Theon of Alexandria; Turner collection; University of Keele |
Subject terms: | Mathematics, Ancient; Mathematics, Greek |
Master spool number: | HOU5595 |
Production number: | FOUM266N |
Videofinder number: | 1402 |
Available to public: | no |