Articles in blog tagged with radio
Friday, 4 December 2009
Silk Road
The excellent Radio 4 programme In Our Time has a fascinating episode on The Silk Road. Well worth a listen. More on The Silk Road is available from The British Library and Wikipedia.
Monday, 12 October 2009
Radio 4, Lego and Calculus
Andrew Carol built a difference engine in Lego. The difference engine uses Newton's method of differences. Newton and Liebniz invented calculus at the same time without knowing about each other and using different techniques. Newton accused Liebniz of plagarism. There was an epic feud, as discussed in Radio 4's In Our Time. Newton and Liebniz also feature in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. So there you are.