John D. Barrow
Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London
3 episodes
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The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries, from alternating current to predicting the path of asteroids.
11 February 2010
Also featuring: Colva Roney-Dougal, Marcus du Sautoy
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work at the very limits of maths.
9 October 2008
Also featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Philip Welch
Mathematics and Platonism
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery. And if it is a discovery, how can we be sure that the mathematic we think we have discovered is the right one?
11 January 2001
Also featuring: Ian Stewart, Margaret Wertheim