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
Here's looking at Euclid
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It is often argued that mathematics as we know it today originated in Greece, and names such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes are certainly part of our culture. But Archimedes did much more than run naked through the streets shouting Eureka! So what specific contributions did the Greeks make, what types of mathematical problems interested them, and why do we now consider them so important?