Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry podcast

Competitive mathematics in Renaissance Italy

8/5/2007

Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry

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In this episode Professor Ian Stewart describes how the scandalous world of competitive mathematics in renaissance Italy encouraged the development of our understanding of equations, algebra and laid the foundations for our modern understanding of symmetry.

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Competitive mathematics in Renaissance Italy

Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry

Otros episodios de "Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry"

Symmetry, string theory and an equation for everything (plus - could we be living in an asymmetrical universe?)

Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics

Physicists, Einstein and Symmetry

Group theory and the failed revolutionary

Competitive mathematics in Renaissance Italy

Babylonian and Greek mathematics

What is symmetry?