
Description
This series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians, how their theories developed and how these ideas are still at the root of science, technology and ...culture today. This programme focuses on the work of mathematicians in Europe, Russia and the United States of America in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
This series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians, how their theories developed and how these ideas are still at the root of science, technology and ...culture today. This programme focuses on the work of mathematicians in Europe, Russia and the United States of America in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Series: | The Story of Maths |
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First transmission date: | 2008 |
Published: | 2008 |
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Duration: | 01:00:00 |
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Director: | David Berry |
Producer: | David Berry |
Screenwriter: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
Presenter: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
Contributors: | June Barrow-Green; Joe Dauben; Yuri Matiyasevich; Samuel Patterson; Peter Sarnak; Marcus Du Sautoy |
Publisher: | BBC Open University |
Keyword(s): | Alexandre Grothendieck; Grisha Perelman; Julia Robinson; Paul Cohen; Samuel Patterson; Sofia Kovalevskaya; Yuri Matiyasevich |
Subject terms: | Mathematics; Bourbaki, Nicolas; Cantor, Georg, 1845-1918; Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783; Galois, Evariste, 1811-1832; Gödel, Kurt, 1906-1978; Hilbert, David, 1862-1943; Noether, Emmy, 1882-1935; Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912; International Congress of Mathematicians; |
Production number: | LAAK550W |
Videofinder number: | 7933 |
Available to public: | no |