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The joy of mathematics : a conversation with Ian Stewart / Open Agenda Publishing.
LIBRA DVD QA10.7 .J69 2013b
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ideas Roadshow
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stewart, Ian, 1945---Interviews.
- Stewart, Ian.
- Mathematics--Social aspects.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematicians.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2013]
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Ian Stewart, mathematician and highly prolific writer, strongly disagrees with the common view that mathematics is uninteresting, and believes that much of its bad popular reputation is simply based upon a lack of understanding as to what it's really all about.
- Contents:
- Conversation stoppers and mathematical trauma
- Teaching mathematics
- False romanticism
- Symmetry and animals
- Colouring networks and trotting horses
- How to get unstuck and other good advice
- Gender imbalance and Portuguese mysteries
- Mathematics everywhere.
- Participant:
- Host, Howard Burton.
- Credits:
- Editor, Andrew Niblo; music, Shafton Thomas.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2013.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- OCLC:
- 919155662
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