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  1. Coping with Irrationality (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Understanding what is meant by an integer or fraction is easy enough, but how can we handle number like the square root of 2, or pi, or e, and how can we do arithmetic such on numbers or work out the answer...

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  2. Recently added to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    23 Oct 2014, 11:47
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  3. Classifying Cubics (1988 Video)

    Director
    J Koumi
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1994 sale: (M101) £60.00 (+VAT +p&p) combined with three other programmes from the course on a single cassette.

    A computer exploration of cubic curves, scaling and translating them to see the possibilities. What sort of number is the square root of 2? Numbers can be considered from the point of view of either geometry...

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  4. Pi and e (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    One way to find the value of pi or e is by defining such numbers as the limits of monotonic sequences. The number p is the area of a disc with unit radius, but the area can be found without using p by...

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  5. 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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