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Podcast Episode 17: History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw, al-Kharazmi

By Peter Rowlett. Posted February 17, 2009

These are the show notes for episode 17 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 17 is prime, the only prime of the form p^q + q^p, where p and q are prime. More about the number 17 from Number Gossip.

In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of al-Kharazmi. You can read a biography of al-Kharazmi at the MacTutor History of Maths Archive, read more information on the al-Kharazmi page at Wikipedia and find out about the concept of Algorithms at Wikipedia and a history of algebra at algebra.com.

You can find out more about my work with the IMA by reading this blog and visiting www.ima.org.uk/student.

Podcast: Episode 13 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Florence Nightingale

By Peter Rowlett. Posted January 18, 2009

These are the show notes for episode 13 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 13 is prime and is the number of Archimedian solids, which includes the Truncated Icosahedron, the shape used in the construction of common footballs and is a model of the structure of the fullerene allotrope of carbon, which is carbon-60. More about the number 13 from Number Gossip.

In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Florence Nightingale. You can read a comprehensive biography of Florence Nightingale at MacTutor and a wealth of information at the Florence Nightingale museum. There are some links to further information on her statistics at “Florence Nightingale – Statistical Links“.

I said in the episode I would post a link to the Theorem of the Day website by Robin Whitty, who sent a kind email and put a link to the podcast on that website.

You can find out more about my work with the IMA by reading this blog and visiting www.ima.org.uk/student.

N.B. The widely quoted story of Sylvester being Nightingale’s tutor has been questioned but dates to a contemporary obituary of Sylvester. For details please see: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World by Karen Hunger Parshall. Johns Hopkins University Press 2006.

Podcast: Episode 11 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Euler

By Peter Rowlett. Posted December 14, 2008

These are the show notes for episode 11 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. All palindromic numbers (that is, numbers that remain the same when their digits are reversed) with an even number of digits are divisible by 11. More about the number 11 from Prime Curios. There is a wealth of information on palindromic numbers at worldofnumbers.com.

Podcast: Episode 6 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Galois

By Peter Rowlett. Posted November 9, 2008

These are the show notes for episode 6 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 6 is the minimum number of colors that is always sufficient to color any map on a Möbius strip. More about the Möbius strip from The Math Forum and a discussion of the colouring problem at Ask Dr. Math. More facts about number 6 from thesaurus.maths.org.

In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Évariste Galois. You can read a short introduction to Galois and his work at h2g2 or read a more detailed biography of Galois at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. You can read a roundup of group theory at Wikipedia and an introduction to Galois Theory from nrich.

You can find out more about my work with the IMA by reading this blog and visiting www.ima.org.uk/student.

Podcast: Episode 2 – Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Newton and Leibniz

By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 11, 2008

These are the show notes for episode 2 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 2 is prime, the only even prime number. More facts about number 2 from thesaurus.maths.org.

In the first of our Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks through a little of the history around Isaac Newton and Gottfried von Leibniz. If you’re interested in this topic, you might try reading Wikipedia on the Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy and there is much more on Newton at the Newton Project.

You can find out more about my work with the IMA by reading this blog and visiting www.ima.org.uk/student.

The picture below is of an Isaac Newton sundial I stumbled upon at the University of Leicester earlier in the week.