Marcus du Sautoy
Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
15 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal, Ian Stewart, Jackie Stedall, Robin Wilson
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician who tackled questions on the stability of the Solar System and planet rotation and devised the basis for metrication
8 April 2021
Also featuring: Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal
HistoryFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench physicistsLinear algebraistsFellows of the Royal SocietyGrand Officers of the Legion of HonourMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench agnosticsFrench fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theoristsMembers of the Académie Française18th-century French mathematiciansMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMembers of the French Academy of SciencesFrench deistsDeterministsCarl Friedrich Gauss
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Gauss, 'prince of mathematicians', including those on number theory, geometry, probability theory, astronomy and electromagnetism.
30 November 2017
Also featuring: Colva Roney-Dougal, Nick Evans
ScienceFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesLinear algebraistsMembers of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesFellows of the Royal SocietyMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Göttingen alumniAcademic staff of the University of Göttingen18th-century German astronomersHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesMental calculatorsGerman LutheransMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesOptical physicistsMembers of the Bavarian Academy of SciencesRecipients of the Copley MedalRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Zeno's paradoxes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the paradoxes attributed to Zeno of Elea (c490-430BC) which have stimulated mathematicians and philosophers for millennia.
22 September 2016
Also featuring: Barbara Sattler, James Warren
Fermat's Last Theorem
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem, a mathematical puzzle which took more than three hundred and fifty years to solve.
25 October 2012
Also featuring: Vicky Neale, Samir Siksek
Random and Pseudorandom
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness, ideas important to cryptography, statistics and weather forecasting.
13 January 2011
Also featuring: Colva Roney-Dougal, Timothy Gowers
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: John D. Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal
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: John D. Barrow, Philip Welch
The Fibonacci Sequence
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Fibonacci Sequence, an infinite string of numbers to be found in Renaissance paintings, modern architecture and the structure of flowers.
29 November 2007
Also featuring: Jackie Stedall, Ron Knott
Symmetry
Melvyn Bragg discusses symmetry in art and nature. From snowflakes and butterflies to the music of Bach and the poems of Pushkin.
19 April 2007
Also featuring: Fay Dowker, Ian Stewart
The Poincaré conjecture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poincaré Conjecture, a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
2 November 2006
Also featuring: June Barrow-Green, Ian Stewart
Prime Numbers
Melvyn Bragg discusses prime numbers, their still mysterious patterning and the secrets might hold about the nature of atoms.
12 January 2006
Also featuring: Robin Wilson, Jackie Stedall