Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
The Cambridge Festival of Ideas is the only arts, humanities and social sciences festival in the UK. The 2011 Festival takes place between 19 - 30 October 2011.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the hidden mathematical ideas that underpin artists' creative output and reveals that the work of the mathematician is sometimes no less driven by strong aesthetic values.
The world's population will reach seven billion this year. Can the Earth sustain this many people and is reproductive freedom a fundamental liberty? What will the future hold for a crowded planet? In this film, Professor John Guillebaud, Population Matters; Sara Parkin, Forum for the Future; Fred Pearce, author of 'Peoplequake'; and Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure debate the topic. This event forms part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas (www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas) on Tuesday 25 October 2011.