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Mysterious World of Maths episode 3

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 3

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 3: Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern maths, discovered by Bertrand Russell, which undermines the very foundations of logic that all of maths is built on. These flaws suggest that maths isn’t a true part of the universe but might just be a human language – fallible and […]

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Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths episode 2

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 2

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 2: In this episode, Hannah travels down the fastest zip wire in the world to learn more about Newton’s ideas on gravity. His discoveries revealed the movement of the planets was regular and predictable. James Clerk Maxwell unified the ideas of electricity and magnetism, and explained what light was. As if

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Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths episode 1

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 1

Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths episode 1: In this new series, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. It underpins so much of our modern world that it’s hard to imagine life without its technological advances, but where exactly does maths come from? Is it invented like a language or is it something discovered and

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The Story of Maths episode 3 - The Frontiers of Space

The Story of Maths episode 3 – The Frontiers of Space

The Story of Maths episode 3 – The Frontiers of Space: By the 17th century, Europe had taken over from the Middle East as the world’s powerhouse of mathematical ideas. Great strides had been made in understanding the geometry of objects fixed in time and space. The race was now on to discover the mathematics to describe objects in motion.

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The Story of Maths episode 2 - The Genius of the East

The Story of Maths episode 2 – The Genius of the East

The Story of Maths episode 2 – The Genius of the East: When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress stagnated as Europe entered the Dark Ages, but in the east mathematics reached new heights.     Du Sautoy visits China and explores how maths helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering

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The Story of Maths episode 1 - The Language of the Universe

The Story of Maths episode 1 – The Language of the Universe

The Story of Maths episode 1 – The Language of the Universe: After showing how fundamental mathematics is to our lives, Marcus du Sautoy explores the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece.     In Egypt, he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand, while in former Mesopotamia he discovers that the way

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The Joy of Stats

The Joy of Stats

The Joy of Stats: Documentary which takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power they have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend.     Rosling is a man who

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The Joy of Winning

The Joy of Winning

The Joy of Winning: How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry.     Following in the footsteps of BBC Four’s award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats and The Joy of Data, this latest gleefully nerdy adventure sees mathematician Dr

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age of invention

East to West – The Renaissance and islam ep.4

In this episode we reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe lingered in the dark age. We see how Muslim scholars brought together for the first time the ideas of the Greeks and Romans with Persian and Indian mathematics and astronomy, and developed them into the beginnings of

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