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  1. In Our Time: Culture

    Pascal

    1Sep 19th, 201341m 57s
    Melvyn Bragg and his guests begin a new series of the programme with a discussion of the French polymath Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623, Pascal was a brilliant mathematician and scientist, inventing one of the first mechanical calculators and maki
  2. In Our Time: Culture

    The Renaissance

    1Jun 8th, 200042m 23s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance, which was first given its role as the birth place of modern man by the nineteenth century historian Jacob Burckhardt. At the start of his immensely influential Civilisation of the Renaissance in
  3. In Our Time

    The Upanishads

    1Nov 8th, 201242m
    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the ancient sacred texts of Hinduism. Dating from about 700 BC, the Upanishads were passed down through an oral tradition in priestly castes and were not written down until the 6th century AD.
  4. In Our Time: Science

    Prime Numbers

    2Jan 12th, 200628m 11s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 … This sequence of numbers goes on literally forever. Recently, a team of researchers in Missouri successfully calculated the highest prime number - it has 9.1 million digits
  5. In Our Time: Science

    Ada Lovelace

    1Mar 6th, 200842m 7s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. Deep in the heart of the Pentagon is a network of computers. They control the US military, the most powerful army on the planet, but they are controlled by a programm
  6. In Our Time: Science

    Probability

    1May 29th, 200842m 11s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a simple question with a far from simple answer. Gambling may be as old as the hills but probability as a mathematical discipline is a relative young
  7. In Our Time: Science

    Calculus

    1Sep 24th, 200942m 7s
    Melvyn Bragg discusses the epic feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented an astonishingly powerful new mathematical tool - calculus. Both claimed to have conceived it independently, but the argument soon descended i
  8. In Our Time: Science

    Imaginary Numbers

    1Sep 23rd, 201042m 10s
    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers. In the sixteenth century, a group of mathematicians in Bologna found a solution to a problem that had puzzled generations before them: a completely new kind of number. For more than a centu

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