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Henri Poincaré
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14 minutes
Released:
Sep 30, 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 Henri Poincare, the man who proved there are certain problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Today Henri Poincare, the man who proved there are certain problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Released:
Sep 30, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (10)
Evariste Galois: How the maths begun by Evariste Galois describes the particles that make up our universe. by A Brief History of Mathematics