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The queen of the sciences : a history of mathematics

2008

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The queen of the sciences : a history of mathematics / David M. Bressoud.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2008] ©2008
Description:	4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).
Summary:	24 lectures describing the historical development of mathematics.
Series:	The Great courses. Science & mathematics Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
Subjects:	Mathematics -- History.
Genre:	Educational films. Nonfiction films. Science films.
Other Author:	Bressoud, David M., 1950- speaker, author. Bressoud, David M., 1950- Queen of the sciences: a history of mathematics, Parts I & II, course guidebook. Teaching Company.
Other Title:	History of mathematics Queen of the sciences: a history of mathematics, Parts I & II, course guidebook.
Notes:	Course no. 1434. "Part 1 of 2, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs"--Container, Part 1. "Part 2 of 2, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs"--Container, Part 2. Course guidebooks entitled: "The queen of the sciences: a history of mathematics, Parts I & II, course guidebook". Course guidebooks include bibliographical references. Producer, Nelson J. Ginebra ; academic content supervisor, Nancy Eskridge ; editor, Dan Shine. ; consultants, Zachary H. Rhoades, Marcy McDonald. Lecturer: David M. Bressoud, Macalester College. DVD format.
Contents:	The queen of the sciences: a history of mathematics, Part 1. lecture 1. What is mathematics? -- lecture 2. Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics -- lecture 3. Greek mathematics : Thales to Euclid -- lecture 4. Greek mathematics : Archimedes to Hypatia -- lecture 5. Astronomy and the origins of trigonometry -- lecture 6. Indian mathematics : trigonometry blossoms -- lecture 7. Chinese mathematics : advances in computation -- lecture 8. Islamic mathematic : the creation of algebra -- lecture 9. Italian algebraists solve the cubic -- lecture 10. Napier and the natural logarithm -- lecture 11. Galileo and the mathematics of motion -- lecture 12. Fermat, Descartes, and analytic geometry. The queen of the sciences: a history of mathematics, Part 2. lecture 13. Newton : modeling the universe -- lecture 14. Leibniz and the emergence of calculus -- lecture 15. Euler : calculus proves its promise -- lecture 16. Geometry : from Alhambra to Escher -- lecture 17. Gauss : invention of differential geometry -- lecture 18. Algebra becomes the science of symmetry -- lecture 19. Modern analysis : Fourier to Carleson -- lecture 20. Riemann sets new directions for analysis -- lecture 21. Sylvester and Ramanujan : different worlds -- lecture 22. Fermat's last theorem : the final triumph -- lecture 23. Mathematics : the ultimate physical reality -- lecture 24. Problems and prospects for the 21st century.
ISBN:	1598034278 9781598034271 159803426X 9781598034264
Publisher Number:	1434 PD1434-01 PD1434-02
Other Number:	232978601
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Control Number:	223148
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 510.9 Queen of

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