Summary: "An Introduction to Number Theory is a great introduction to the field for anyone who loves numbers, is fascinated by math, and wants to go further into the relationships among these mysterious objects"--Publisher's web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.1 INTSummary: Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.102 ARTSummary: Presents 24 lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by professor and physicist S. James Gates, Jr., covering superstring theory, which attempts to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 1Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 2
Dalton, Dennis.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. The Hindu vision of life -- lecture 2. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war -- lecture 3. Law and rule in Sophocle's Antigone -- lecture 4. Socrates and Socratic quest -- lecture 5. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 1 -- lecture 6. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 2 -- lecture 7. Aristotle's critique of Plato's Republic -- lecture 8. Machiavelli's Theory of power politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1991