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 The Story of Maths (2009)

Part 3

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 Frontiers of Space

By the 17th century, Europe had taken over from the Middle East as the world's powerhouse of mathematical ideas. Great strides had been made in understanding the geometry of objects fixed in time and space. The race was now on to discover the mathematics to describe objects in motion. In this programme, Marcus du Sautoy explores the work of René Descartes and Pierre Fermat, whose famous Last Theorem would puzzle mathematicians for more than 350 years. He also examines Isaac Newton's development of the calculus, and goes in search of Leonard Euler, the father of topology or 'bendy geometry' and Carl Friedrich Gauss, who, at the age of 24, was responsible for inventing a new way of handling equations: modular arithmetic.

Format : AVI

Length : 465 MiB for 58mn 37s 920ms

Codec : XviD

Source : PDTV

Language : English UK

Subtitles : None

Genre : Science/Educational

Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 972 Kbps

Aspect : 608 x 352 (1.727) at 29.970 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 123 Kbps

Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz

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