Mr Burgess Maths: Recent Episodes
Mr Burgess Maths
The Mr Burgess Maths Podcast Set up for when the whole world closed down and school is shut so that all of you can hear how the world is going as well as discovering a bit of Maths as you listen.
Hopefully a bit of fun in the craziness of social distancing!
The Riemann zeta function and the Riemann hypothesis - proving it could make you rich and kinda a big deal!
We're back for another Half Term! Wahoo! Today we look at the fascinating world of Fractals - have a look at the Koch snowflake, the Sierpiński triangle and the Mandelbrot set.
Episode 27 - A look at Alan Turing's ideas which lead to the computer and how that has helped Mathematicians to mathematically model things which are chaotic like the weather and prove problems such as "the four colour problem".
Episode 25 - We look Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and the worlds first computer programmes and why Babbage even came to invent a mechanical computer in the first place.
Episode 24 - the number that so many teachers use as it has such a good load of factors. So good an episode that I've run out of time to do any maths! So just a quick one today! Enjoy
Gauss - the annoying kid in class who gets everything right in 30 seconds of it being set. But thanks to him we have modular mathematics and the prime number theorem.
A look at Colin Maclaurin and his roots in Scotland, going off to University and a big Grand Tour.
After the long bank holiday weekend we are back looking at de Moivre, a bit of an underdog, who came to prominence, and then went down again - a bit like a normal distribution curve.
Robert Hooke, probably most famous for Hooke's law and springs, but what is this guy who became the 'Curator of Experiments' all about?
A look at the two Bernoulli brothers - Jacob and Johann who were both brilliant Mathematicians, but sibling rivalry will always play out!
The renaissance has arrived and Maths starts to take some leaps forwards in Europe again. We look at John Napier and how he worked on multiplication in two different ways.
In the Dark Ages in Europe, there's not a huge amount of maths that's going on, but a few bits did happen! Bede (more known as a historian) changes the date, and we get introduced to some more symbols!
Episode 16 - We continue our journey through the History of Maths and arrive in Uzbekistan and Iran to two revolutionaries who changed the subject in to something more recognisable today, Al-Khwarizmi and Omar Khayyám.
Episode 15 is the next in our series looking at the progression of Maths through the ages. As Europe enters the Dark ages we look at how Maths carried on developing in China and India which is often neglected by Western Mathematicians. We look at the decimal system in China and the influence of Brahmagupta on Maths and his introduction of zero as a number. As well as all the usual isolation chat!
Episode 14 - After a weekend break we are back to look at the Romans, their backward step of a number system and how the Greeks carried the torch for Maths still in Alexandria with Hero, Diophantus and the first Female Mathematician - Hypatia!
After a funny old day running round the streets on Radio 1, time for another podcast and the next in our chronological order of Maths, the people who really invented studying Maths for it's own sake...The Greek Philosophers
Today it's time to go from counting on fingers and toes to some sort of ways of writing numbers. How did the Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Mayans develop their number systems and why did they not stick?
Series 2! We're back for a second series! As lockdown continues, we start to look back at the very origins of humanity and why Maths is so fascinating to most cultures and its origins in the counting systems. From the earliest counting on fingers, to the celts and Mayans counting on toes, to the the Torres Straight Islands and their body-tallying.
A look at the short life of the amazingly named Blaise Pascal and how he studied from a young age!
Today we have our second guest on the pod...Mr Goodlud who talks about his favourite Mathematician- Fibonacci
Episode 7 sees the first guest on the pod! We hear from Peter Gregory-Smith about how he uses Maths in his job as an accountant at McLaren and spinning round the track in a supercar.
The International Mr Burgess Maths Podcast! After a week of isolation we've made it to the end of the week. This episode is all about the maligned (at the time) Pierre de Fermat and how he upset the establishment before writing a little note in a book.
What do Mathematicians do for fun? The same as everyone else of course and in the late 17th Century that meant drinking coffee and playing chess!