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 helping create modernism. Includes an introduction by Michael Wooldridge, Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

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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.

This episode is 42:12 long.

This episode was published on Dec 18, 2015.

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