Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

History of mathematics

The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

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  1. Renaissance Maths

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Renaissance Mathematics and the change in the understanding of numbers, movement, time and even nature itself, culminating in the calculus of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.

    2 June 2005

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    Featuring: Robert Lee Kaplan, Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall

     
  2. The Antikythera Mechanism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.

    14 November 2024

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    Featuring: Mike Edmunds, Jo Marchant, Liba Taub