Woodhouse and the Analytic Turn in British Mathematics

Episode 9 profiles Robert Woodhouse, the seventh Lucasian Professor, tracing his push for continental calculus with differential notation, the birth of the Analytical Society at Cambridge (with Peacock, Babbage, and Herschel), and his mathematical contributions—from planar and spherical trigonometry to the calculus of variations and isoperimetric problems—alongside his role in linking theory with practice through the Cambridge Observatory.

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