The Story of Maths is a BBC documentary series outlining intriguing aspects of the history of mathematics, written and presented by University of Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. The series comprised four programmes titled: ● The Language of the Universe ● The Genius of the East ● The Frontiers of Space and ● To Infinity and Beyond In the last programme in the series, Marcus du Sautoy looks at some of the great unsolved problems that confronts mathematics in the twentieth century and tells the

13 Father of Branch of Mathematics WHO changed the world. 1. Archemedes: Father of Mathematics, Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age. His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device. 2. Euclid: Father of Geometry, Euclid was a Greek mathematician best known for his treatise on geometry: The Elements.