Story of Maths

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, looks at how fundamental mathematics affects our lives before exploring the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece.

Marcus du Sautoy visits China and explores how mathematics helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering as the Great Wall.

Visiting France to look at the work of Rene Descartes, an outstanding mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Marcus du Sautoy looks at some of the great unsolved problems that confront mathematics in the twentieth century and tells the stories of the mathematicians who would try to crack them.