It's A Math Math Math World with Divakaran and Shraddha | Radio Azim Premji University

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.This is a public podcast from Radio Azim Premji University.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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1. Ep 1 - Babylon

   08 Nov 2023

   Babylon, as the story goes, is where applied mathematics took baby steps. “What, really?!” asks Shraddha. Remember the place value system that makes it easy to represent small and…

   28 min ▶