🎙️ Aujourd’hui, sur Maths en tête, on parle d’un mathématicien dont le travail fait l’unanimité auprès de la communauté, un génie du 20e siècle, dont la vie est tout bonnement incroyable. On parle de celui qu’on a souvent surnommé l’Einstein des maths. Rien que ça. On parle… d’A ...Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests John Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal and Marcus du Sautoy explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries, from the computer to online encryption, to alternating current and predicting the path of asteroids.In his book The Mathematician's Apolog ...Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an iconic piece of 20th century maths - Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems. In 1900, in Paris, the International Congress of Mathematicians gathered in a mood of hope and fear. The edifice of maths was grand and ornate but its foundations, called axio ...Show more