1+1=0 – M. Weil, est-ce bien rationnel ? par ...

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 ...  Afficher plus

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 14 mars 2018. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers partent d ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity. With David Moody Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

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.