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Last broadcast on Wed, 29 Sep 2010, 23:45 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.
Today, the pioneering nineteenth century mathematicians who helped Albert Einstien with his maths: Jonas Bolyai, Nicolas Loachevski and Bernhard Riemann. Without the mathematics to describe curved space and multiple dimensions, the theory of relativity doesn't really work.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Radio 4 Mathematics Collection
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Mon 21 Jun 201015:45
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Wed 29 Sep 201023:45
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