A Brief History of Mathematics is a Documentary programme.

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A Brief History of Mathematics: Evariste Galois

Series 1, episode 4

Marcus du Sautoy examines how French revolutionary Evariste Galois understood the symmetry of mathematics and the mathematics of symmetry - an insight that would prove invaluable to particle physics 200 years later. The presenter reveals how the maths that Galois began describe the fundamental particles that make up the universe

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Anna Buckley