Computational mathematics

Past Computational mathematics Lectures

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Monday 15 April 2013

The idea of a proof as a simple, easily-checked method of establishing truth has undergone modification in the age of computers.  ...

Monday 4 March 2013

When lives depend on calculations, human error can kill.  From the early days of computing, one problem has been that they...

Monday 4 February 2013

Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered memories, and few now use these skills.  We...

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in a Buddhist myth: the heaven...

Monday 28 September 2009

One of the reasons why people make mistakes is that the systems they use are badly designed, and this is perhaps nowhere more alarming...

Thursday 13 May 2004

This series of Geometry Lectures looked at all aspects of computer science, from how it works, how we can teach it better, what the...

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