# Maths is Everywhere

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor John D Barrow FRS
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Physics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/maths-everywhere)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/6f445f3e6aa9) (YouTube)
2. [Continued Fractions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/faadc7878dd9) (YouTube)
3. [The Bounce of the Superball](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/5ea4eb3ec0e1) (YouTube)
4. [The Uses of Irrationality: Paper Sizes and the Golden Ratio](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/b42f60ff3775) (YouTube)
5. [Benford’s Very Strange Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/84fa8ec4d4ec) (YouTube)
6. [Doing Business in Interstellar Space](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-maths-everywhere/13a5a350abbe) (YouTube)