| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 86 pages ; 19 cm) and 1 transcript book (vi, 339 pages ; 19 cm) |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Course no.: 1471. |
| Performer |
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by William Dunham, Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics at Muhlenberg College. |
| Credits |
Producer, Tony Hidenrick ; editor, Dan Shine. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Lecture 1. Theorems as Masterpieces ; Lecture 2. Mathematics before Euclid ; Lecture 3. The Greatest Mathematics Book of All ; Lecture 4. Euclid's Elements--Triangles and Polygons ; Lecture 5. Number Theory in Euclid ; Lecture 6. The Life and Works of Archimedes -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Archimedes's Determination of Circular Area ; Lecture 8. Heron's Formula for Triangular Area ; Lecture 9. Al-Khwārizmī and Islamic Mathematics ; Lecture 10. A Horatio Algebra Story ; Lecture 11. To the Cubic and Beyond ; Lecture 12. The Heroic Century. |
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Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Legacy of Newton ; Lecture 14. Newton's Infinite Series ; Lecture 15. Newton's Proof of Heron's Formula ; Lecture 16. The Legacy of Leibniz ; Lecture 17. The Bernoullis and the Calculus Wars ; Lecture 18. Euler, the Master -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Euler's Extraordinary Sum ; Lecture 20. Euler and the Partitioning of Numbers ; Lecture 21. Gauss--The Prince of Mathematicians ; Lecture 22. The 19th Century--Rigor and Liberation ; Lecture 23. Cantor and the Infinite ; Lecture 24. Beyond the Infinite. |
| Summary |
This course is a journey through the history of mathematics, focusing on the foremost mathematicians of all time, the great thinkers, and the extraordinary masterpieces they produced, the great theorems. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematicians.
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Mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01012154
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Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
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| Genre/Form |
lectures. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026673
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Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Educational films.
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Lectures.
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| Added Author |
Dunham, William, 1947- speaker.
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Hidenrick, Tony, producer.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598036904 (set) |
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9781598036909 (set) |
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1598036912 (transcript) |
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9781598036916 (transcript) |
| Music No. |
1471 Teaching Company |
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