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Lecture 10 of 292018-10-24

Mathematics in War and Peace - Stories about Mathematicians Killed in WW1

Dr Adrian Rice and others · Gresham College

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All the lectures

  1. Mathematics and the Metropolis: A Survey of Victorian London YouTube
  2. The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: Mapping the heavens from 17th century Greenwich YouTube
  3. History from Below: Mathematics, Instruments and Archaeology YouTube
  4. Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI YouTube
  5. Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection YouTube
  6. Mathematics, Motion, and Truth: The Earth goes round the Sun YouTube
  7. Triangular Relationships YouTube
  8. The Memoirs and Legacy of Évariste Galois YouTube
  9. Mathematics in War and Peace - Flying Mathematicians YouTube
  10. Mathematics in War and Peace - Stories about Mathematicians Killed in WW1 YouTube
  11. Mathematics in War and Peace - Euler's Work on Ballistics YouTube
  12. Mathematical Practice and the 18th-Century British Voyages of Scientific Exploration YouTube
  13. A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919 YouTube
  14. Privateer and Mathematician: The Voyages of Edward Wright YouTube
  15. Cryptocurrencies: Protocols for Consensus YouTube
  16. Reserve Currencies in the Era of Fiat Money YouTube
  17. Thomas Harriot on the Coins of England YouTube
  18. Knot Just Numbers: Andean Khipu Strings YouTube
  19. Histories of Numbers YouTube
  20. Sanskrit Mathematics in the Language of Poetry YouTube
  21. Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs! YouTube
  22. How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes YouTube
  23. The Invention of Mathematical Proof in the Renaissance YouTube
  24. Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies YouTube
  25. 19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions YouTube
  26. Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars YouTube
  27. Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Audio
  28. How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics Audio
  29. What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century YouTube