Robert Lee Kaplan
co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
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
Also featuring: Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall
Pi
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature and examines what it tells us about the hidden complexities of our world.
2 September 2004
Also featuring: Eleanor Robson, Ian Stewart