It’s a Math Math Math World with Divakaran and Shraddha
Radio Azim Premji UniversitySpooked by Mathematics? Well, so was our ‘average student’ Shraddha. Until she met Prof. Divakaran at Azim Premji University, who became her tour guide on a journey into its fascinating history. Voyage with them to Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Japan and, of course, India, to discover the origin stories of numbers.
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Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prash... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 4 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Categories | MathematicsSelf-ImprovementEducationScience | ||||
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“If I make a paper plane using a piece of paper, and then unfold it, you will be able to fold it exactly as I did because there is a memory of folding left in that piece of paper,” says Prof. Divakaran. But, complains Shraddha, this does not apply to... more
Ed Sheeran would have been very much at home among the ancient Greeks. Because they, too, were in love with the shape of…everything, actually.
Shape. And area and volume. And angles. The ancient Greeks were on a quest for precise measurement and pe... more
Remember that dreaded figure your teacher scrawled on the margin of your math test paper? It’s the hero of this episode.
Our much-villainised zero has a fascinating history. The Babylonians, as we discovered in Episode 1 (Babylon), may have arrived... more
Babylon, as the story goes, is where applied mathematics took baby steps.
“What, really?!” asks Shraddha.
Remember the place value system that makes it easy to represent small and large numbers? That originated in Babylon, according to historical r... more
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