Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool - for iPod/iPhone: Recent Episodes
The Open University
How can mathematics help us to understand the world around us? The tracks on this album take us to Antarctica, Hong Kong and New Zealand to find out how mathematicians work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of the most important mathematical tools - calculus, and modern mathematicians examine the contribution of its three inventors - Fermat, Newton and Leibniz. This material forms part of The Open University course MS221 Exploring mathematics.
Transcript -- Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.
Transcript -- Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.
Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.
Transcript -- Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.
Transcript -- How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics.
Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.
Transcript -- Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.