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A Brief History of Mathematics

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Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science

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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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