Listening Maths

Earlier I told about new mediums now available to enjoy maths. You can find a list of YouTube channels, to begin with here. And a list of dedicated math podcasts here.

In this post, I want to point out some episodes from the  podcast “In Our Time” which discuss mathematics:

• Mathematics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545hk
• Mathematics and Platonism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054799
• Mathematics’ Unintended Consequences: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qj2nq
• Maths in the Early Islamic World: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dr5qt
• Indian Mathematics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038xb0
• Renaissance Maths: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9hq
• Zeno’s Paradoxes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vs3v1
• Zero: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y254
• Infinity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054927
• Negative Numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hyd9
• Prime Numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hyf5
• Imaginary numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tt6b2
• Pi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y291
• Euler’s number, e: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hz49f
• Pythagoras: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p693b
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gbnfj
• Euclid’s Elements: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07881kn
• Calculus: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mrfwq
• Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dshx3
• Fermat’s Last Theorem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ngn3j
• The Poincaré Conjecture: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x8l
• Symmetry: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00776v8
• Cryptography: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y272
• Random and Pseudorandom: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9xjb
• Probability: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bqf61
• Game Theory: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h75xp

Apart from them, another podcast worth listening to is “The Wizard of Mathematics, Srinivasa Ramanujan” by Prof. Srinivas Kotyada on FM Gold: