Margaret Wertheim
science writer, journalist and author of Pythagoras' Trousers
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
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, John D. Barrow
Space in Religion and Science
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of thought about space, and examines whether cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world or if its roots are in Einsteinian physics.
18 February 1999
Also featuring: John Polkinghorne