Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
Spooked by Mathematics? Well, so was our ‘average student’ Shraddha. Until she met Prof. Divakaran at Azim Premji University, who became her tour guide on a journey into its fascinating history. Voyage with them to Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Japan and, of course, India, to discover the origin stories of numbers.
Credits:
Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Sananda Dasgupta, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi, and Velu Shankar.
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