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  1. HELEN

    Date released
    Mar 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346240
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The progress of Helen Kent, a Northumberland miner’s daughter, studying to be an engineer. NCB Commentary - James Kent has been a winding man for more than thirty years. His job is a...

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  2. Emergence of Greek Mathematics, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 24 minutes), £34.99

    Euclid’s ‘Elements’ is one of the world’s most reprinted books. How did it come about and why does it remain a classic textbook? Examines the 13 books in detail starting with the idea of proof.

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  3. Power of the Pen, The (1990 Television)

    Series
    Different World
    Director
    Debbie Allen
    Producer
    Debbie Allen

    Us sitcom. A spin-off series from THE COSBY SHOW. The series centres around the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. In this episode Dwayne, who loves...

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  4. Viewfinder 94

    Date
    30 Sep 2014, 10:18
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Page

    Viewfinder 94 was published in March 2014. Contents of this issue: SCREENING EUROPE This AHRC project has been set up to explore the ways in which heritage films across Europe choose to present the...

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  5. Paris and the New Mathematics (1986)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    During the French Revolution the new republic saw mathematics as a tool to be used in its service. Describes some of the revolutionary mathematics and the developments that were to arise from it. Centres...

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  6. Orthogonal Bases (1978 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Wright
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the properties of bases in general and orthogonal bases in particular.

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  7. In Perspective (1978 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Demonstrates some of the effects of perspective changes on plane geometrical figures, and shows how these are related to the ideas of projective geometry.

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  8. Klein’s Unification of Geometry (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Koumi
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Computer animation and a 3-D model of a perspectivity demonstrate that Euclidean, non-Euclidean and projective geometries are unified, and also distinguished by Klein’s view of each one as a space plus a...

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  9. Non-Euclidean Geometry 1 (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    During the 18th and 19th centuries mathematicians were increasingly questioning the foundations of geometry. Shows how investigations led to the development of non-Euclidean geometry, discussing the work of...

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  10. Non-Euclidean Geometry (1994)

    Producer
    Anne-Marie Gallen
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores the nature of non-Euclidan geometry, beginning by looking at the toy known as the Euclidean kaleidoscope and moving on to explaining the properties of non-Euclidean geometry. Then explains the...

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