Wednesday evening TV...

[marinyork]

The four parter, I think - the one about the history of mathematics, which brought in a lot of stuff about Middle Eastern and East European mathematicians.

I'm a sucker for these programmes on higher maths and astrophyisics, if they are well presented. I'm not sure why, because I can only just keep all the balls in the air for the duration of the programme. I like being left with the residual wonder.

Oh yes I saw that. Actually I thought the first two programmes in the series were quite poor but I understand that they have to do that sort of thing to draw the audiences in. The last two were pretty good. They

Fair enough, that's what Marcus got Dawkins's old seat for. It's mean a lot more programmes not just by him but I think we've had 2 horizons on Maths, a series, and a couple of quite well made docs on chaos and so on all in the last year. I've no idea if many of them have been watched though.

I was quite impressed the people they lined up for the programme, Max Tegmark seems to like appearing on BBC documentaries for some reason so I don't have a particular objection to that but how on earth they managed to persuade Chaitin or Cameron to appear I really don't know.