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...System, and its extraordinary results will be studied in the world’s leading scientific journals for years to come... Mission to Titan An brief introduction to this album. The Cassini-Huygens Probe Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched. Titan: first glimpse OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic...

...system of simple equations or perhaps quite complex equations into a computer programme and you can then set the programme to go to watch the interplay of the various factors that you’ve teased out as being important. So, for example, if you were trying to understand how the planets in the solar system move, then you would need to put in a mathematical description of...

...system used to record goods changing hands. Incas and their knots How South American Incas kept records by the use of knots. Wooden tallies for buying beer How wholesale beer sales were recorded using notches on wooden tallies. John Napier's mathematical creations John Napier's method of multiplication and logarithms, and how Charles Babbage corrected his calculations....