Prithvi Theatre Presents THE GENIUS OF THE EAST, July 17

The Prithvi Theatre of India will present THE GENIUS OF THE EAST in English on July 17, 2010 at 11:00am.

The Genius of the East is the second episode of The Story of Maths, a four part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy, who was also the consultant for Complicite's A Disappearing Number, the play coming to India this August.

The Genius of the East, sees du Sautoy leaving the ancient world. When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress stagnated as Europe entered the Dark Ages, but in the East mathematics reached new heights. Du Sautoy visits China and explores how maths helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering as the Great Wall. In India, he discovers how the symbol for the number zero was invented and Indian mathematicians' understanding of the new concepts of infinity and negative numbers. In the Middle East, he looks at the invention of the new language of algebra and the spread of Eastern knowledge to the West through mathematicians such as Leonardo Fibonacci, creator of the Fibonacci Sequence.

Entry to the event is free.

For tickets and more information, visit www.prithvitheatre.org.

 

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