Jun 2018

La théorie de l'apprentissage de Vapnik et les progrès récents de l'intelligence artificielle par Yann Le Cun

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 4 avril 2018. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers partent d ... Show More

1h 15m

Jun 2018

Classer les formes avec Henri Poincaré par Nicolas Bergeron

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 17 janvier 2018. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers parten ... Show More

1h 3m

Oct 2017

Buffon et le hasard en géométrie par Agnès Desolneux

Cycle de conférences organisées par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France. Conférence du 26 avril 2017. Conférences organisées à l'attention du grand public, des professeurs du second degré et des lycéens et étudiants, les conférenciers partent ... Show More

55 m

Oct 2012

Fermat's Last Theorem

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1637 the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note in the margin of one of his books. He claimed to have proved a remarkable property of numbers, but gave no clue as to how he'd gone about it. "I have foun ... Show More

42m 6s

Apr 2023

The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan

The ideas of equity and equality are all over the news, yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly each term means. Political theorist and intellectual historian Teresa Bejan of Oriel College, Oxford discusses the origins of our notions of equality, from the Roman Emp ... Show More

1h 1m

Sep 2009

Calculus

Melvyn Bragg discusses the epic feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented an astonishingly powerful new mathematical tool - calculus. Both claimed to have conceived it independently, but the argument soon descended into a bitter battle over priority, p ... Show More

42m 7s

Mar 2013

Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health

Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz,Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 31st January 2013.

50m 16s

Dec 2016

Four Quartets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity. With David Moody Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature ... Show More

48m 30s

Sep 2010

Joseph Fourier

Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: Joseph Fourier’s insightful maths.This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematici ... Show More

14m 10s

Dec 2020

Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Mathematics as a subject is distinctive in its symbolic abstraction and its potential for logical and computational rigor. But mathematicians tend to impute other qualities to our subject that set it apart, such as impartiality, universality, and elegance. Far from incidental, th ... Show More

1h 47m

Oct 2010

Nicolas Bourbaki

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 ... Show More

14m 36s

Fermat, Mersenne, factorisation et nombr...