Edition |
Library edition. |
Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (21 cm.). |
Series |
The great courses. Science & mathematics |
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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System Details |
DVD. |
Bibliography |
Bibliographic references in guides. |
Note |
Title from container |
Performer |
Lectures by Paul Zeitz. |
Note |
In 2 containers : each container with 2 DVDs and 1 course guidebook. |
Summary |
Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Paul Zeitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and author of The art and craft of problem solving. |
Contents |
Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Problems versus exercises -- Lecture 2. Strategies and tactics -- Lecture 3. The problem solver's mind-set -- Lecture 4. Searching for patterns -- Lecture 5. Closing the deal, proofs and tools -- Lecture 6. Pictures, recasting, and points of view -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. The great simplifier, parity -- Lecture 8. The great unifier, symmetry -- Lecture 9. Symmetry wins games -- Lecture 10. Contemplate extreme values -- Lecture 11. The culture of problem solving -- Lecture 12. Recasting integers geometrically. |
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Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Recasting integers with counting and series Lecture 14. Things in categories, the pigeonhole tactic -- Lecture 15. The greatest unifier of all, invariants -- Lecture 16. Squarer is better, optimizing 3s and 2s -- Lecture 17. Using physical intuition, and imagination -- Lecture 18. Geometry and the transformation tactic -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Building from simple to complex with induction -- Lecture 20. Induction on a grand scale -- Lecture 21. Recasting numbers as polynomials, weird dice -- Lecture 22. A relentless tactic solves a very hard problem -- Lecture 23. Genius and Conway's infinite checkers frontier -- Lecture 24. How versus why, the final frontier. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Problem solving.
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Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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Added Author |
Zeitz, Paul, 1958-
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Teaching Company.
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Added Title |
Mathematical problem solving |
ISBN |
1598036211 |
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9781598036213 |
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159803622X paperback guidebook |
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9781598036220 paperback guidebook |
Music No. |
1483 Teaching Company |
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