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Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’
Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...
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Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ is an episode from Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary by Oxford University. Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century sa...
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Published Dec 18, 2015, 42:12 long, audio available.
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