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Gresham College Lectures - Mathematics
John D. Barrow
  • Not just about numbers (9/10/08)
  • The importance of being peripheral (25/11/08)
  • Harmonic things (11/12/08)
  • The maths of pylon, art galleries and prisons under the spotlight (12/1/09)
  • Some Interesting Curves (29/1/09)
  • How to be a Winner: The maths of race fixing and money laundering (3/3/09)
  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know (13/5/09)
  • A Sense of Balance (6/10/09)
  • Brilliant-cut diamonds and other tricks of the light (27/10/09)
  • The Maths of Sorting Things Out (24/11/09)
  • Codebreaking in Everyday Life (12/1/10)
  • Trains and Boats and Planes (9/2/10)
  • Maths and Sport (9/3/10)
  • Maths with Pictures (5/10/10)
  • Continued Fractions (16/11/10)
  • The Bounce of the Superball (7/10/10)
  • The Uses of Irrationality: Paper Sizes and the Golden Ratio (11/1/11)
  • Benford’s Very Strange Law (1/2/11)
  • Doing Business in Interstellar Space (1/3/11)
  • How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run? (15/11/11)
  • David and Goliath: Strength and Power in Sport (13/12/11)
  • Citius, Altius, Fortius: Records, Medals and Drug Taking (17/1/12)
  • Let’s Twist Again: Throwing, Jumping, and Spinning (21/2/12)
  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport (15/3/12)
  • On the Waterfront (27/3/12)
  • Final Score (24/4/12)
  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts (13/11/14)
    • Raymond Flood
  • Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits (25/9/12)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (31/10/12)
  • Polynomials and their Roots (6/11/12)
  • From One to Many Geometries (11/12/12)
  • The Queen of Mathematics (22/1/13)
  • Are Averages Typical? (19/2/13)
  • Modelling the World (19/3/13)
  • Butterflies, Chaos and Fractals (17/9/13)
  • Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public (22/10/13)
  • Symmetries and Groups (19/11/13)
  • Surfaces and Topology (21/2/14)
  • Probability and its Limits (18/2/14)
  • Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases (18/3/14)
  • Fermat's Theorems (16/9/14)
  • Newton's Laws (21/10/14)
  • Euler's Exponentials (18/11/14)
  • Fourier's Series (20/1/15)
  • Möbius and his Band (17/2/15)
  • Cantor's Infinities (17/3/15)
    • Tony Mann
  • Arithmetic by Computer and by Human (4/2/13)
  • How computers get it wrong: 2+2 = 5 (4/3/13)
  • Proof by Computer and Proof by Human (15/4/13)
  • User Error: Why it's not your fault (20/1/14)
  • Finding Stable Matches: The Mathematics of Computer Dating (17/2/14)
  • Might as well toss a coin: How random numbers help us find exact solutions (17/3/14)
  • This Lecture Will Surprise You: When Logic is Illogical (19/1/15)
  • When Maths Doesn't Work: What we learn from the Prisoners' Dilemma (16/2/15)
  • Two Losses Make a Win: How a Physicist Surprised Mathematicians (16/3/15)
    • Robin Wilson
    1. Euclid (16/1/02)
    2. Newton (30/1/02)
    3. Euler (6/3/02)
    4. Maps, Maidens and Molecules (17/10/02)
    5. Four Colours Suffice? (21/10/02)
    6. Keep taking the tablets (6/10/04)
    7. Here’s looking at Euclid (27/10/04)
    8. Much ado about zero (17/11/04)
    9. Prime-time mathematics (2/2/05)
    10. How hard is a hard problem? (9/3/05)
    11. Who invented algebra? (5/10/05)
    12. Who invented the equals sign? (26/10/05)
    13. Who invented the calculus? - and other 17th century topics (19/11/05)
    14. Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs (18/1/06)
    15. How to grow trees (1/2/06)
    16. Problems with schoolgirls (22/2/06)
    17. Mathematics in the modern age - The 18th century: Crossing bridges (4/10/06)
    18. Mathematics in the modern age - The 19th century: Revolution or evolution? (25/10/06)
    19. Mathematics in the 20th century: Chaos, codes and colouring (15/11/06)
    20. The story of Pi (17/1/07)
    21. The story of i (7/2/07)
    22. The story of e (28/2/07)
    23. 4000 years of Geometry (3/10/07)
    24. 4000 years of Algebra (17/10/07)
    25. 4000 years of Numbers (7/11/07)
    26. Squaring the circle and other impossibilities (16/1/08)
    27. From Hilbert's problems to the future (27/2/08)
    28. The Great Mathematicians (19/10/11)
    29. The Mathematics that Counts (10/10/13)
    Others
    1. Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist? (Mark McCartney 31/10/12)
    2. How Mathematicians Think About Patterns (Ian Stewart 28/2/13)
    3. Notation, Patterns & New Discoveries (Colin Wright 23/1/14)
    4. The Secret Mathematicians (Marcus du Sautoy 21/5/14)