Le paradoxe des anniversaires

🎙️ Peut-on faire confiance à un objet mathématique qui n’existe pas ?Aujourd’hui, j’aimerais vous parler d’un nombre… qui n’a pas de réalité propre. Ce nombre, c’est i.Parlons à la rencontre de grands noms comme Tartaglia, Cardan, Bombelli, Euler et Gauss.#i #maths #imaginaire P ...  Show more

🎙️ Et si tout était faux ? Si cette voix que vous entendez... votre vie... n’étaient que des lignes de code ? Comme dans Matrix ? Une hypothèse envisagée sérieusement. Sauf que récemment, des chercheurs ont publié un article affirmant que les mathématiques poseraient un sérieux ...  Show more

Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up. Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understan ...  Show more

In the history of mathematics, there were several times when mathematicians encountered problems that they didn’t know what to make of. It wasn’t a case of a problem with a very difficult solution so much as it was a problem that didn’t seem to make any sense.  In one such case, ...  Show more

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role ...  Show more

Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History will be a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
Launching on 1 February on a trial basis, eac ...  Show more