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An enormous amount of our leisure time is spent interacting with the media, watching television and movies. Much of the space on our computers (and on the Internet) is taken up with static and moving images,...
Talk by Simon Salamon, Professor in Geometry at Kings College, London. The study of perspective in art has led to a branch of mathematics called projective geometry, which addresses the relationship between...
Podcast on the subject of calculus and differentiation. Florencia Tettamanti, a mathematician working on fluid dynamics, discusses how she uses calculus to study the motion of fluids like air and water, and...
Podcast about mathematical modelling and linear programming. Rick Crawford, a mathematician studying decommissioning of nuclear reactors, explains how he uses mathematical models to determine whether it is...
Documentary about the history and principles of mathematics presented by astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with other mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. The programme traces the...
In an age of digital images we have all become photographers. High quality cameras in mobile phones, together with Apps which send images to our contacts, have transformed the way in which we communicate....
A talk by Professor Raymond E. Goldstein which discusses the maths behind the physical properties of hair. Can the macroscopic properties of hair - its texture, body, volume and other qualities such as...
The history of graph (network) theory (GNT) started with an attempt to find a single walking path, which crosses, once and only once, each of the seven bridges of old Königsberg - known as the Seven Bridges...
This lecture by Professor Raymond Flood explores the legacies of William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) and George Boole (1815-1864). Hamilton discovered quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, and did...
The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who may be said to have pioneered the modern computer age with his ‘difference engines’ and his ‘analytical engine’,...
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