Events: detail
4000 years of numbers
- Hosted by:
- Gresham College
- Speaker:
-
Professor Robin Wilson
- Starts:
- November 07, 2007 at 01:00 pm
- Ends:
- November 07, 2007 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Gresham College, , Barnard’s Inn Hall, London, EC1N 2HH United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
How did numbers arise? How were they written down? What does it mean to say that numbers are rational, complex, or transcendental? What is a number, anyway, and why did it take thousands of years to provide an answer?
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Gresham College
- Phone:
- 020 7831 0575
- Email:
- enquiries [ at ] gresham.ac.uk
- Website:
- 4000 years of numbers
