Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
4000 Years of Geometry
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From the Egyptian pyramids to modern sculpture, geometry has been at the heart of our culture. Central to this story has been 'Euclidean geometry' which seems to describe the world we live in. But does it? Can there be other types of geometry?