Pages tagged as History Of Mathematics

OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Language of the UniverseOU

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

12 July 2011

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By Dr June Barrow-Green (The Open University)

13 January 2005

Dr June Barrow-Green explains how the ancient Babylonians did maths, based an a sexagesimal place-value system. Read more : Babylonian numerals and problems

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London 2012

As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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