In this podcast series Professor Ian Stewart of Warwick's Department of Mathematics explores the history of symmetry and its impact on mathematics, physics and our understanding of the Universe.

1. Introducing Symmetry
2. Babylonian and Greek mathematics and the role of Omar Khayyam
3. Competitive mathematics in Renaissance Italy
4. Évariste Galois - the failed revolutionary
5. Physicists start to notice and Einstein changes everything
6. Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics
7. Symmetry, string theory and an equation for everything (plus - could we be living in an asymmetrical universe?)

• For more information on this podcast contact Tom Abbott (t.abbott@warwick.ac.uk / 024 76574474)