Fermat, Mersenne, factorisation et nombres pa...

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 4 avril 2018. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers partent d ...  عرض المزيد

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 17 janvier 2018. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers parten ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1637 the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note in the margin of one of his books. He claimed to have proved a remarkable property of numbers, but gave no clue as to how he'd gone about it. "I have foun ...  عرض المزيد

The ideas of equity and equality are all over the news, yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly each term means. Political theorist and intellectual historian Teresa Bejan of Oriel College, Oxford discusses the origins of our notions of equality, from the Roman Emp ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg discusses the epic feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented an astonishingly powerful new mathematical tool - calculus. Both claimed to have conceived it independently, but the argument soon descended into a bitter battle over priority, p ...  عرض المزيد

Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz,Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 31st January 2013.