Story of Maths Season 1 Episode 2

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The Genius of the East

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Season 1 Episode 2

Marcus du Sautoy discovers how, as Europe fell into the Dark Ages, the development of maths was taken up with vigour in the East. He learns how numeracy made possible great feats of engineering, and India came up with symbols for zero and negative numbers, as well as concepts of infinity. The academic then examines the propagation of the knowledge to the West through luminaries such as Fibonacci

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