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Title:

Zero to infinity [videorecording] : a history of numbers.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks.

Subject:

Numeration--History.
Numerals--History.

Other Authors:

Burger, Edward B., 1963-
Teaching Company.

Notes:

Two parts in two containers. Lecturer: Edward B. Burger, Williams College.

Contents:

Part 1. Lecture 1. The ever-evolving notion of number -- Lecture 2. The dawn of numbers -- Lecture 3. Speaking the language of numbers -- Lecture 4. The dramatic digits, the power of zero -- Lecture 5. The magical and spiritual allure of numbers -- Lecture 6. Nature's numbers, patterns without people -- Lecture 7. Numbers of prime importance -- Lecture 8. Challenging the rationality of numbers -- Lecture 9. Walk the (number) line -- Lecture 10. The commonplace chaos among real numbers -- Lecture 11. A beautiful dusting of zeroes and twos -- Lecture 12. An intuitive sojourn into arithmetic --
Part 2. Lecture 13. The story of [pi] -- Lecture 14. The story of Euler's e -- Lecture 15. Transcendental numbers -- Lecture 16. An algebraic approach to numbers -- Lecture 17. The five most important numbers -- Lecture 18. An analytic approach to numbers -- Lecture 19. A new breed of numbers -- Lecture 20. The notion of transfinite numbers -- Lecture 21. Collections too infinite to count -- Lecture 22. In and out, the road to a third infinity -- Lecture 23. Infinity, what we know and what we don't -- Lecture 24. The endless frontier of number.

Series:

Great courses

ISBN:

9781598033762
159803376X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)188137278

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)