Mr Burgess Maths

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.