A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science
A Brief History of Mathematics - Carl Friedrich Gauss
How the Gaussian or normal distribution underpins modern medicine and enables marketing companies to deduce who you are from your supermaket loyalty card.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Evariste Galois
How Evariste Galois understood the symmetry of mathematics and the mathematics of symmetry. The maths that he began describes the fundamental particles that make up our universe.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Georg Cantor
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Hardy and Ramanujan
GH Hardy, whose work on the 'diabolical malice' inherent in prime numbers inspired the millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Henri Poincare
Henri Poincare, the man who proved there are certain problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Joseph Fourier
The story of Joseph Fourier, who was hired by Napoleon to be a servant to the French Revolution. His mathematics transformed our understanding of heat, light and sound.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Leonard Euler
How Leonard Euler's mathematical solution to a popular 18th-century conundrum enables us to access information on the internet, 300 years later.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Newton and Leibniz
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy presents a history of mathematics. An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to its enormous power.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - Nicolas Bourbaki
A group of French mathematicians, working between the two world wars and writing under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki, paved the way for several 21st-century breakthroughs.
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A Brief History of Mathematics - The mathematicians who helped Einstein
Bernhard Riemann, the man who showed mathematicians how to see in four or more dimensions: a mathematical insight that paved the way for Einstein's theory of relativity.
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