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Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool - for iPod/iPhone

How can mathematics help us to understand the world around us? The tracks on this album take us to Antarctica, Hong Kong and New Zealand to find out how mathematicians work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of the most important mathematical tools - calculus, and modern mathematicians examine the contribution of its three inventors - Fermat, Newton and Leibniz. This material forms part of The Open University course MS221 Exploring mathematics.

  • 56 seconds
    Mathematics: a powerful tool
    An introduction to the tracks on this album.
    15 July 2009, 12:56 am
  • Transcript -- Mathematics: a powerful tool
    Transcript -- An introduction to the tracks on this album.
    15 July 2009, 12:56 am
  • 1 minute 59 seconds
    Mathematical modelling for real
    An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
    15 July 2009, 12:55 am
  • Transcript -- Mathematical modelling for real
    Transcript -- An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
    15 July 2009, 12:55 am
  • 5 minutes 16 seconds
    An ancient tradition
    How bamboo scaffolding does its job.
    15 July 2009, 12:54 am
  • Transcript -- An ancient tradition
    Transcript -- How bamboo scaffolding does its job.
    15 July 2009, 12:54 am
  • 5 minutes 2 seconds
    How maths helps dolphins
    Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.
    15 July 2009, 12:53 am
  • Transcript -- How maths helps dolphins
    Transcript -- Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.
    15 July 2009, 12:53 am
  • 4 minutes 37 seconds
    Predicting climate change
    Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.
    15 July 2009, 12:52 am
  • Transcript -- Predicting climate change
    Transcript -- Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.
    15 July 2009, 12:52 am
  • 5 minutes 20 seconds
    A vibrating lake
    Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.
    15 July 2009, 12:51 am
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