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The Beauty of Diagrams
Description: Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind the most familiar scientific diagrams. Genre: TV program First episode air date: November 18, 2010 Network: BBC Four Language: English
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Plot: Co-produced by the BBC and presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy, this miniseries covers such subjects as the invention of zero and the Riemann hypothesis, the contributions of great mathematicians including Pythagoras, Plato and Euclid, and some of the biggest unsolved problems that confronted...
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