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Maths’ Dirty Secret: The Incompleteness Theorems

A brilliant programme looking at Godel’s theorems, which proved once and for all that Mathematics would never be able to exist without paradoxes – results which shocked the academic world to its core.

From the BBC, here.

Expand Your Mind – Probability

Really good programme on probability on BBC radio last week. You can ‘listen again’ to it here.

For those of you who haven’t discovered it yet, ‘In Our Time’ is just the best thing on… like a weekly brain feast to prepare you for anything in an University interview: history, science, medicine, philosophy - it’s all there [...]

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