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Galaxy

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

33

NoS ID

350924

Story no

2 / 5

COI synopsis: The infinity of the Universe presents the astronomer with a constantly changing picture with which it is impossible to keep track. Now the Royal Observatory has handed the job over to a machine...

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To Infinity and Beyond (2010)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Infinity is older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. Once you learn to count, in theory you could go on counting forever. But instead you enter a paradoxical world where nothing...

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Corrupting the Classics with Contemporary Crap. Episode 2: Crossing over with John Edward (2011 Video)

Director

Caitlin Gold; Naomi McDougall Jones

Producer

Caitlin Gold; Naomi McDougall Jones

Comedy short. The series puts great classic characters into various popular reality TV shows. In Episode 2 Abigail Williams and Hamlet speak to their dead loved ones through the medium John Edwards on...

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The Uses of Infinity: A Philosopher Looks at Emergent Phenomena in Physics (2007)

Subject

Philosophy; Physics; Science

Audio recording of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture given by philosopher Dr Jeremy Butterfield on emergent phenomena at the Royal Society on 7/11/2007. Emergence, and its contrary reduction, are...

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Colours of Infinity, The (1994 Video)

aka: Arthur C Clarke’s Colours of Infinity - Exploring the Fractal Univese

Director

Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 53 min., 1998 sale: £12.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A film about fractal geometry, retracing the steps that led to the discovery of the Mandelbrot set, with the aim of illustrating the implications and applications of the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry...

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Hotel Hilbert: A Play for Television by Darren Charles (1996)

Subject

Drama; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

A drama illustrating the paradoxes of infinity: only in an infinite hotel is it possible for every room to be occupied and while still leaving room for guests. The character Fiona Knight (Fi-Nite) arrives at...

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Five Numbers (2005)

Subject

Mathematics

A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - zero, Pi, the golden ratio, the imaginary number and infinity.

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Galaxy

Date released

1970

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

33

NoS ID

350928

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: The infinity of the Universe presents the astronomer with a constantly changing picture with which it is impossible to keep track. Now the Royal Observatory has handed the job over to a machine...

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Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) (2001)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes/ 114 minutes), £9.99 £15.99 (special edition)

Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners. Set in England during the Victorian era, the story revolves around a pun on the name Ernest.

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Adventures in Perception (1970 Film)

Director

Hans van Gelder

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The work of Ducth graphic artist Maurits Escher is a play of perspectives and illusions of forms and spaces in which he draws the impossible. Boundaries expand to infinity, and floors becomes ceilings and...

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