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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 looks at mathematics in Renaissance art and the work of mathematicians in 17th, 18th and 19th century Europe and Russia.
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 looks at mathematics in Renaissance art and the work of mathematicians in 17th, 18th and 19th century Europe and Russia.
| 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: | Henk Bos; Leonard Euler; Sylvia Garnier; Marin Mersenne; Fritz Nagel; Samuel Patterson; Marcus Du Sautoy; Jacqueline A. Stedall; Erwin Stein; Nikolai Vavilov |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Perspective |
| Subject terms: | Bernoulli, Daniel,--1700-1782; Bolyai, János,--1802-1860; De Fermat, Pierre; Descartes, René,--1596-1650; Gauss, Carl Friedrich,--1777-1855; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,--Freiherr von,--1646-1716; Lobachevskii, Nikolai Ivanovich,--1793-1856; Mathematics; Newton, Isaac,--Sir,--1642-1727; Piero,--della Francesca,--1416?-1492; Riemann, Bernhard,--1826-1866 |
| Master spool number: | LAAK549B/71 |
| Production number: | LAAK549B |
| Videofinder number: | 7939 |
| Available to public: | no |
