Euclid's Elements
In Our Time: Science
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Euclid's Elements was written around 300 BC in Alexandria. It became so influential that it is deeply ingrained in everything mathematicians to do even now. One of our guests likens its proof on prime numbers to the discovery of the atom. With Marcus Chisotoy, Professor of Mathematics and Simone Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Sir Afina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck University of London. June Barogreen, Professor of the History of Mathematics at the Open University.
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