Has anyone watched this series? It was on BBC Four not long ago. Im a fan of Marcus du Sautoy, he brings a certain enthusiasm for mathematics that I struggle to find in the mainstream. Part One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfgy96Msq7Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ny56wXK8nA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXMdTA8c2g ..and more on youtube....some freak has the whole series..
Ah nice one, thanks for that. I'm quite a fan of du Sautoy, never seen this though. I can't believe it passed me by. Did you watch his Horizon episode about consciousness and existence? It was actually really decent. I'm a student at Oxford. I only wish he still lectured proper courses, he does the odd teaching workshop-y kind of things, but to have him for number theory would have been awesome.
Wow, that is a great series. I started out with your links and ended up watching the whole Part 1 of the four part series. I am looking forward to the next part. It is interesting to note that some of the earliest uses of the method to calculate the area of irregular parcels of land were in order to allow Egyptians to tax them properly Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!. In minute three of part two is a moment for Kai. Hint of geometric series. Or was it a hint of the potentially infinite 4-D expansion? Just kidding you people. From 800 BC a complete list of lunar eclipses; Babylonian. Ingriguing. Behind the great presentation of the history of math is a great travel log of the ancient world; well worth watching. Pythagoras and the harmonic series. Excellent insight and interesting how it came about. Who knocked the noses off of all of those statues? Is it an axiom that there cannot be an infinite length of time between two events in time? To you mathematicians, let Archimedes’ death be a lesson to you Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!. These are only meant as discussion starters for those who have watched Part !.
