A Brief History of Mathematics Available now

There are currently 10 available episodes

Nicolas Bourbaki

10/10 Nicolas Bourbaki, the mathematician that never was.

First broadcast: 25 Jun 2010

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Hardy and Ramanujan

9/10 GH Hardy, whose work inspired the millions of codes that help to keep the internet safe.

First broadcast: 24 Jun 2010

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Henri Poincare

8/10 Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.

First broadcast: 23 Jun 2010

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Georg Cantor

7/10 Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.

First broadcast: 22 Jun 2010

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The mathematicians who helped Einstein

6/10 Bernhard Riemann, the man who showed mathematicians how to see in four or more dimensions.

First broadcast: 21 Jun 2010

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

5/10 How the Gaussian or normal distribution underpins modern medicine.

First broadcast: 18 Jun 2010

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Evariste Galois

4/10 How the maths begun by Evariste Galois describes the particles that make up our universe.

First broadcast: 17 Jun 2010

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Joseph Fourier

3/10 How Joseph Fourier's mathematics transformed our understanding of heat, light and sound.

First broadcast: 16 Jun 2010

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Leonard Euler

2/10 How a solution to a 1700s conundrum enables us to access information on the internet.

First broadcast: 15 Jun 2010

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Newton and Leibniz

1/10 An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus.

First broadcast: 14 Jun 2010

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