Maths with Pictures - Professor John D. Barrow

How pictures have been used in mathematics. The use of illustrations in ancient mathematics books, the invention of the first graphs and the representation of probabilities, sets and formulae by pictures. We look at the role played by computers in exploring and displaying the behaviour of extremely large and complicated problems. This has changed the culture of applied mathematics and science and influences the way research is done and the forms in which it is presented.

About the Lecturer
John David Barrow is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician.

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