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European evolution, train tales and the history of mathematics

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Django Bone in the Science Museum

There was a civilization 20,000 years ago which used sophisticated mathematics. 15,000 years before the Egyptians are the Sumerians - that's fascinating. So this podcast is going to be on the history of mathematics. Because this is what intrigued me. And I've always felt that so many kids leave school with no sense of mathematics. They leave school hating maths and they never make the link between maths and reason and precision and logic,. Right? Now humans simply wouldn't exist without mathematics. That's the key, right? Okay, Mac, hang on. We might come back. Go on.

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