BBC - The Story of Maths (2008) Part 1 The Language of the Universe

Four-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy

Part 1: The Language of the Universe

In Egypt, he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand and discovers that the way we tell the time is based on the Babylonian Base 60 number system. In Greece, he looks at the contributions of some of the giants of mathematics including Plato, Archimedes and Pythagoras, who is credited with beginning the transformation of mathematics from a counting tool into the analytical subject of today.

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