(1 - 10 of 10 programmes)
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Nicolas Bourbaki
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Available since Fri, 25 Jun 2010.
10/10. Nicolas Bourbaki, the mathematician that never was.
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Hardy and Ramanujan
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Available since Thu, 24 Jun 2010.
9/10. GH Hardy, whose work inspired the millions of codes that help to keep the internet safe.
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Henri Poincare
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Available since Wed, 23 Jun 2010.
8/10. Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
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Georg Cantor
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Available since Tue, 22 Jun 2010.
7/10. Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
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The mathematicians who helped Einstein
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Available since Mon, 21 Jun 2010.
6/10. Bernhard Riemann, the man who showed mathematicians how to see in four or more dimensions.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Available since Fri, 18 Jun 2010.
5/10. How the Gaussian or normal distribution underpins modern medicine.
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Evariste Galois
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Available since Thu, 17 Jun 2010.
4/10. How the maths begun by Evariste Galois describes the particles that make up our universe.
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Joseph Fourier
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Available since Wed, 16 Jun 2010.
3/10. How Joseph Fourier's mathematics transformed our understanding of heat, light and sound.
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Leonard Euler
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Available since Tue, 15 Jun 2010.
2/10. How a solution to a 1700s conundrum enables us to access information on the internet.
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Newton and Leibniz
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Available since Mon, 14 Jun 2010.
1/10. An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus.

