Henri Poincaré

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Today Henri Poincaré, the man who proved there are certain problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory. Producer: Anna Buckley From 2010.

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Henri Poincaré is an episode from A Brief History of Mathematics by BBC.

This episode is 14:08 long.

This episode was published on Sep 30, 2010.

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