Christmas Day December 25 2006.
The five lectures are on Channel 5 TV and start on Mon Dec 25 2006 at 7:15 PM
(GMT).Further dates and times are given below.
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THE NUM8ER MY5TERIES
Mathematics
has successfully cracked some of the biggest mysteries of all time. By
analysing the clues and spotting a hidden pattern, mathematicians have
unmasked some of the most challenging cases on the mathematical books.
In the 2006 Christmas Lectures Marcus du Sautoy takes us on a journey
through some of the greatest thrillers in mathematics. We’ll stalk
secret numbers as they spiral off to infinity. Follow the trail into
the fourth dimension in search of Nature’s most mysterious shapes.
Uncover the tricks that can help you make the winning move. Decipher
the codes that hide a secret message. Ultimately discover how
mathematics can predict whodunit before anything ever happens.
But
the hunt isn’t over. Mathematics is full of mysteries that have foiled
even the cleverest mathematicians. Some of these baffling brainteasers
have a reward of $1 million for their solution. Join Marcus du Sautoy
on his hunt for the clues to crack the greatest unsolved cases in
mathematics.
Marcus du Sautoy is
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is passionate
about maths and he’s demonstrated this by making his local football
team all wear shirts with prime numbers on. They’ve since had great
success on the football pitch!
About the Ri Christmas Lectures
In
the mid 1820s Michael Faraday, a former Director of the Royal
Institution, initiated the first Christmas Lecture series at a time
when organised education for young people was scarce. He presented a
total of 19 series, establishing an exciting new venture of teaching
science to young people.
The Christmas Lectures have
continued annually since this time, stopping only during World War 2.
They are recognised as an educational forum for presenting complex
scientific issues to young people in an informative and entertaining
manner and are the flagship of the Royal Institution. Many world-famous
scientists have given the lectures including Baroness Susan Greenfield,
the current Director of the Royal Institution, David Attenborough and
George Porter. To find out all of the Christmas Lecture speakers since
1825, please
click here.
The Ri and the IET
Due
to the major refurbishment project the Ri is currently undergoing, the
Christmas Lectures will take place off-site for the second time since
they began. The lecture theatre was completely out of action for the
December 1929–January 1930 Christmas Lectures during a massive
reconstruction project in 1929–1931, so the lectures had to find a
temporary home. The Institute of Electrical Engineers offered their
premises for free, and so Stephen Ranulph Kingdom Glanville was able to
enthral young audiences with lectures on ‘How things were done in
ancient Egypt’. We are delighted to announce the Christmas Lectures
will be returning to the IEE (now called the Institute of Engineering
and Technology) in 2006. The IET is located at Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL.
For
the third consecutive year, the Christmas Lectures are generously
supported by the Leverhulme Trust. The Leverhulme Trust was established
in 1925 under the Will of the First Viscount Leverhulme with the
instruction that it should support scholarships for education and
research. Since that time, the Trust has provided funding for research
projects and studentships across all the academic disciplines, the
ambition being to support talented individuals as they realise their
personal vision in education or research. Full details of the Trust's
activities may be found on their website at:
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
This
is the second year that the Christmas Lectures will be broadcast on
five over the Christmas period. Five and the Ri share a passion for
exploiting the unique nature of the lectures and their intellectually
challenging scientific experimental style. Five has a track record of
uncompromising standards of scientific coverage, and a growing
commitment to science as a key part of the channel's peak-time schedule.
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