Competitive mathematics in Renaissance Italy

05/08/07 • 13 min

Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry

In this episode Professor Ian Stewart describes how the scandalous world of competitive mathematics in renaissance Italy encouraged the development of our understanding of equations, algebra and laid the foundations for our modern understanding of symmetry.

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