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OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths

By: The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

Marcus DuSautoy explores the long, surprising history of man's relationship with numbers.

23 Sep

2008

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First broadcast: Monday 13 Oct 2008 on BBC FOUR

The Story of Maths in more depth:

OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - About the series Production team

Marcus DuSautoy takes a journey through the heart of the universe - find out more about the series. Read more : OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - About the series

OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - To Infinity and Beyond The Open University / Karen Parker

Unsolved problems - and the search for solutions - will take maths to infinity and beyond. Read more : OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - To Infinity and Beyond

OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Frontiers of Space BBC

By the seventeenth century Europe had taken over from the Middle East as the world’s power house of mathematical ideas, the beginning of the Golden... Read more : OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Frontiers of Space

OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Genius of the East Production team

When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress became the preserve of the genius of the East. Read more : OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Genius of the East

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

It's numbers, not words, which make up the language of the universe. Read more : OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - The Language of the Universe

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