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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…

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    Mathematics: a powerful tool

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    An introduction to the tracks on this album.

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    Transcript -- An introduction to the tracks on this album.

    Mathematical modelling for real

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 1:59


    An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.

    Transcript -- Mathematical modelling for real

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    Transcript -- An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.

    Transcript -- An ancient tradition

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    How maths helps dolphins

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 5:02


    Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.

    Transcript -- How maths helps dolphins

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    Transcript -- Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.

    Predicting climate change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 4:37


    Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.

    Transcript -- Predicting climate change

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    Transcript -- Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.

    A vibrating lake

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 5:20


    Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.

    Transcript -- A vibrating lake

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    Transcript -- Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.

    Why is maths useful?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 1:06


    How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics.

    Transcript -- Why is maths useful?

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    Transcript -- How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics.

    Who invented Calculus?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 2:55


    The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first?

    Transcript -- Who invented Calculus?

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    Transcript -- The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first?

    Fermat’s ideas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 4:02


    An explanation of some of Fermat’s discoveries.

    Transcript -- Fermat’s ideas

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    Transcript -- An explanation of some of Fermat’s discoveries.

    Fermat and John Wallis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 1:20


    How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis.

    Transcript -- Fermat and John Wallis

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    Transcript -- How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis.

    Isaac Newton’s input

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 5:16


    Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.

    Transcript -- Isaac Newton’s input

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    Transcript -- Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.

    New insights emerge

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 7:44


    Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together.

    Transcript -- New insights emerge

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    Transcript -- Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together.

    The Newton-Leibniz dispute

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2009 3:16


    How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.

    Transcript -- The Newton-Leibniz dispute

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    Transcript -- How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.

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