Starbird, Michael.
Summary: 12 lectures about probability delivered by Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 519.2 WhatStarbird, Michael
Summary: Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Presents a collection of topics that reveal the rich, wondrous structure of what we see around us. Patterns in nature are the source of our geometrical understanding of the world. Abstracting those patterns leads to concepts from classical geometry. Extensions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MATBurger, Edward B.
Summary: Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, conincidences, fractals, the allure of number and gemoetry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 1Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 2
Summary: Presents 24 calculus lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 515 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 1 20061 available in Adult, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 2 2006
Burger, Edward B.
Summary: An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005