Mr Burgess Maths

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!

Pythagoras - Man?, God?, Weirdo? You decide!

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.

It's the first week of the Easter Holidays...so how are we all doing?

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.