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 The Story of Maths (2009)

Part 2

Without mathematics, there would be no physics, nor chemistry, nor cosmology. Oxford professor of mathematics, Marcus du Sautoy, explores the 30,000-year history of maths, examining the development of key mathematical ideas and shows how, in a multitude of surprising ways, they underpin the science, technology, and culture that shape our world. Four-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy.

The Genius of the East

When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress stagnated as Europe entered the Dark Ages, but in the East mathematics reached new heights. Du Sautoy visits China and explores how maths helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering as the Great Wall. In India, he discovers how the symbol for the number zero was invented and Indian mathematicians' understanding of the new concepts of infinity and negative numbers. In the Middle East, he looks at the invention of the new language of algebra and the spread of Eastern knowledge to the West through mathematicians such as Leonardo Fibonacci, creator of the Fibonacci Sequence.

Format : AVI

Length : 465 MiB for 57mn 16s 80ms

Codec : XviD

Source : PDTV

Language : English UK

Subtitles : None

Genre : Science/Educational

Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 996 Kbps

Aspect : 608 x 352 (1.727) at 29.970 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 125 Kbps

Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz

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