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Hardy and Ramanujan
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.
Today, G.H.Hardy, the mathematician who insisted he had never done anything useful. And yet his work on the "diabolical malice" inherent in prime numbers inspired the millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Today, G.H.Hardy, the mathematician who insisted he had never done anything useful. And yet his work on the "diabolical malice" inherent in prime numbers inspired the millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Released:
Oct 1, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (10)
Newton and Leibniz: An astronaut and an investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus. by A Brief History of Mathematics