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The Beauty of Diagrams – Vitruvian Man

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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the few undisputed geniuses mankind has produced. A polymathic innovator, he was the ultimate Renaissance man – making key advancements in science, engineering, architecture and biology, as well as creating artwork which has captivated and enthralled for the centuries since his death in 1519. One of his most iconic […]

Margot Gerritsen – Mathematics Gives You Wings

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Airplanes, yachts and fast cars. Margot Gerritsen has helped design them all. The Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, here describes her varied and exciting career to date, working on the design of modern airplanes, yachts, trucks and cars through her expertise in mathematical and computational modeling of energy and fluid flow processes. She […]

The Lost Codex of Archimedes

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Archimedes is the most famous of the ancient mathematicians, and not just because of his penchant for running naked through the streets shouting ‘Eureka!’. A genius centuries ahead of his time he calculated an accurate value for Pi, discovered the principle of water displacement and invented the archimedean screw. “Give me a place to stand, […]

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.

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George Dyson, science historian, discusses his new book Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe about John Von Neumann, Alan Turing and the history of computers. Grandson of British composer Sir George Dyson, and son of the famed theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, young George escaped the shadow of his overachieving family by moving to […]

Fractals: The Colours of Infinity

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The Mandelbrot Set is perhaps the most beautiful representation of infinity ever discovered. In this rare 1995 documentary Arthur C. Clarke takes us on a psychedelic journey into the depths of the M-Set, discovering that it has no end, it literally goes on for ever. No matter how much you zoom in on it there is […]

Cellular Automata

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Cellular Automata are an eye-opening way of conceiving how complexity, given enough time, can emerge from very simple rules. The most famous is Conway’s Game of Life which takes place on an infinite 2-dimensional grid of cells. The cells can be either ‘dead’ or ‘alive’ (black or white) and change as time progresses according to […]

A Mathematical Mystery Tour

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Fascinating BBC Horizon programme from 1984 looking at the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics including Fermat’s Last Therom (since solved), The Goldback Conjecture, The Riemann hypothesis, the P=NP Problem, and more. Featuring interviews with many modern mathematicians, this documentary also looks at the history of maths and some of if it’s major players from Euclid […]

Bertrand Russell Interview

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1959 interview with the legendary aristocratic philosopher, mathematician and pacifist. Here, in his late eighties, he is still in possession of a remarkably keen mind and a mischievous sense of humour. Blessed not only with a genius mind he is wonderful to listen to because of his great voice and even better turn of phrase  […]

Dangerous Knowledge

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David Malone‘s documentary on 4 brilliant minds whose genius could not save them from their tragic deaths. Cantor, Boltzman, Godel and Turing. Mathematican Georg Cantor (1845 -1918) was the first to make any real headway into the seemingly impossible concepts, contradictions and impenetrable  mathematics of infinity. It drove him mad and he ended up dying […]

Fermat’s Last Theorem

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BBC Horizon’s extraordinarily poignant documentary about English mathematician Andrew Wiles‘ lifelong quest to solve the greatest problem in maths – Fermat’s Last Theorem. Pierre De Fermat (1601-1665) was a famous French mathematician who contributed greatly to many fields of study including calculus. He was also known for writing curious notes suggesting various conjectures, theorems and […]
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