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Joseph Fourier
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Sep 28, 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, the mathematics of Joseph Fourier. It's thanks to his mathematical insight that you can hear Marcus on the radio and that Brian Eno can create sounds that have never been heard before.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Today, the mathematics of Joseph Fourier. It's thanks to his mathematical insight that you can hear Marcus on the radio and that Brian Eno can create sounds that have never been heard before.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Released:
Sep 28, 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