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Outstanding historical Math lectures

Professor Robin Wilson of Gresham College has delivered a number of outstanding lectures, mostly about historical mathematical subjects, that are available from the College's web-site. The lectures are viewable by Real Player and there are transcriptions in PDF format and lecture notes available. The lectures I've watched are a half hour long but I don't know if that's the case for all of them.

There are 30 lectures available from Professor Wilson. Topics include:

• Euclid
• Newton
• Euler
• Much ado about zero
• Prime-time mathematics
• How hard is a hard problem?
• Who invented algebra?
• Who invented the calculus? and other 17th century topics
• Wallpaper patterns and buckyballs

Two that I've particularly enjoyed are "Problems with schoolgirls" and "Who invented algebra?"

Enjoy the lectures and share a comment about the ones you like.