The Story of Maths (2008) (Repost)
The Story of Maths (2008) (Repost)
PDTV | English | MKV (H264) 25.000 fps 1650 Kbps | 832x468 | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0 khz | 4x58mn | 4x737 MB
Genre: Documentary
PDTV | English | MKV (H264) 25.000 fps 1650 Kbps | 832x468 | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0 khz | 4x58mn | 4x737 MB
Genre: Documentary
Four-Part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy.
Part 1: The Language of the Universe
In Egypt, he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand and discovers that the way we tell the time is based on the Babylonian Base 60 number system. In Greece, he looks at the contributions of some of the giants of mathematics including Plato, Archimedes and Pythagoras, who is credited with beginning the transformation of mathematics from a counting tool into the analytical subject of today.
Part 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 explores how maths helped build imperial China and discovers how the symbol for the number zero was invented in India. He also looks at the Middle Eastern invention of algebra and how mathematicians such as Fibonacci spread Eastern knowledge to the West.
Part 3: The Frontiers of Space
By the 17th century, Europe had taken over from the Middle East as the powerhouse of mathematical ideas. Great strides had been made in understanding the geometry of objects fixed in time and space. The race was on to discover the mathematics to describe objects in motion. This programme explores the work of Rene Descartes, Pierre Fermat, Isaac Newton, Leonard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Part 4: To Infinity and Beyond
Professor Marcus du Sautoy concludes his investigation into the history of mathematics with a look at some of the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century. After exploring Georg Cantor's work on infinity and Henri Poincare's work on chaos theory, he sees how mathematics was itself thrown into chaos by the discoveries of Kurt Godel and Paul Cohen, before completing his journey by considering some unsolved problems of maths today, including the Riemann Hypothesis.
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