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Maths is Everywhere

Professor John D Barrow FRS · Gresham College

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About

How pictures have been used in mathematics. The use of illustrations in ancient mathematics books, the invention of the first graphs and the representation of probabilities, sets and formulae by pictures. We look at the role played by computers in exploring and displaying the behaviour of extremely large and complicated problems. This has changed the culture of applied mathematics and science and influences the way research is done and the forms in which it is presented.

Lectures

  1. Maths with Pictures 2010-10-05 · YouTube
  2. Continued Fractions 2010-11-16 · YouTube
  3. The Bounce of the Superball 2010-12-07 · YouTube
  4. The Uses of Irrationality: Paper Sizes and the Golden Ratio 2011-01-11 · YouTube
  5. Benford’s Very Strange Law 2011-02-01 · YouTube
  6. Doing Business in Interstellar Space 2011-03-01 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor John D Barrow FRS
Year
2010
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Physics
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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