Archive for the ‘Math movies’ Category

Friday math movie: Math Prodigy Terence Tao, UCLA

Terence Tao - math prodigyTerence Tao is quite remarkable, having joined UCLA as a professor at age 20.

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Math movie: First Life with David Attenborough - Oldest Animals

First Life FractalSome of the earliest animals to appear used efficient fractal (or modular) shapes.

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Friday math movie: Bach Crab Canon

Bach's Crab CanonHere's a very neat way to illustrate Bach's Crab Canon - using a Mobius strip.

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Friday math movie: Artfully visualizing our humanity

Artfully visualizing our humanityThis video is a great treatment of math for multiple intelligences - visual, musical and interpersonal.

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Friday math movie: World Metrology Day 2011

metrologyThis video commemorates World Metrology Day, 20th May. Go metric and make your lives simpler!

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Friday math movie: Stephen Wolfram on Computing a theory of everything

Stephenn Wolfram's TED talk - Computing a Theory of EverythingThe developer of Wolfram|Alpha shares his views on improvements to the normal search engine.

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Friday math movie: Two Dots

Two DotsNow here's an interesting way to think of Euclidean geometry (points, lines and triangles).

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Friday math movie: OK Go This Too Shall Pass

OK Go This Too Shall PassThis is an excellent video, showing how much fun you can have with physics, math and creativity.

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Friday math movie: Printing a human kidney

Artificial liverWhy do we have to do analytic geometry? Or 3-D geometry? This movie shows one interesting real-life application.

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Friday math movie: Salman Khan at TED

Salman Khan at TEDHere's an interesting talk from the creator of Khan Academy, a brilliant collection of free math videos.

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