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
Mathematics in the modern age - The 18th century: Crossing bridges
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What shape is the Earth? how do strings vibrate? can you construct a 65,537-sided polygon? and can you cross the seven bridges of Konigsberg? While British mathematics drowned in Newtonianism, major bridges were being crossed on the Continent ...