Creating mathematical harmony with music.
In his final lecture, Christopher Zeeman introduces his young audience to the fundamentals of Catastrophe theory, in which we
In his first lecture, RV Jones considers numbers, systems and in particular the rise of the decimal system and the number zero
RV Jones explores the history of man's attempt to measure time, from early hourglasses and pendulum clocks to quartz and atom
It is now possible to measure things on very small scales, but how small can we go and how much of this can be automated by
In his fourth lecture, RV Jones investigates measurement on very large scales. How are waves used to measure the distance
Both in peace and in war men need to know where they are on the surface of the earth, and, nowadays, in space.