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Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics

Professor Raymond Flood · Gresham College

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About

The seventeenth century mathematician Pierre de Fermat is mainly remembered for contributions to number theory even though he often stated his results without proof and published very little. He is particularly remembered for his ‘last theorem’ which was only proved in the mid-1990s by Andrew Wiles. He also stated other influential results, in particular Fermat’s ‘Little Theorem’ about certain large numbers which can be divided by primes. His ‘Little Theorem’ is the basis of important recent work in cryptography and internet security.

Lectures

  1. Fermat's Theorems 2014-09-16 · YouTube
  2. Newton's Laws 2014-10-21 · YouTube
  3. Euler's Exponentials 2014-11-18 · YouTube
  4. Fourier's Series 2015-01-20 · YouTube
  5. Möbius and his Band 2015-02-17 · YouTube
  6. Cantor's Infinities 2015-03-17 · YouTube
  7. Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, 1905 2015-10-20 · YouTube
  8. Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras 2015-11-17 · YouTube
  9. Babbage and Lovelace 2016-01-19 · YouTube
  10. Gauss and Germain 2016-02-16 · YouTube
  11. Hardy, Littlewood, Cartwright and Ramanujan 2016-03-15 · YouTube
  12. Turing and von Neumann 2016-04-19 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Raymond Flood
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Physics, Computer science, History
Source
Gresham College
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