22 November 2020
How the Ancient Greeks Shaped Modern Mathematics
Number 536 in our What did the Greeks ever do for us? series. Here, we take mathematics (thanks to 12foot6 and the Royal Institution. It may blow away a few cobwebs for you if you don’t engage (consciously) with math on a daily basis with lots of great, pithy facts about dead Greek guys such as Pythagoras and Archimedes. Sounds a bit dry? Take a look – it’s great fun.