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  1. Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

    aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

    Director
    Clare Beavan
    Subject
    Drama; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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  2. Galileo (1997)

    Director
    Richard Rich
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (30 minutes), £7.49

    Europe, the sixteenth century. The Copernican theory that the earth revolves around the sun is considered false. Galileo, a courageous astronomer and inventor, constructs a superior version of the existing...

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  3. Alan Turing: Reflections on His Personal Life (2016)

    Subject
    Information technology

    To what extent did Alan Turing influence the evolution of modern computing? The 20th Century mathematician is considered by many to be the father of computer science. Aside from his contribution to maths...

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  4. Psychology of Alan Turing, The (2014)

    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology
    Distribution
    Audio (Download)

    Podcast from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Michael Ferguson has written book reviews of two recent biographies on the mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing - who recently received a royal pardon...

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  5. 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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  6. Teaching Students to Write Mathematics (2013)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Teaching students to write mathematics correctly is often neglected part of a mathematics degree (and earlier education). This downloadable DVD was produced as part of Kevin Houston’s aim to to rectify...

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  7. Imagined Worlds. Part 4: There’s No Virtue in Timidity (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor Tom Gold, FRS, the Austrian physicist was only 28 years old when he challenged the fundamental scientific assumption that matter can neither be created out of nothing nor totally destroyed. He,...

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  8. Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star / Extase (2009)

    Director
    Donatello Dubini; Fosco Dubini; Gustave Machatý
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes + 79 minutes), 29.95 euros

    This 2 disc set comprises a documentary about the Hollywood star and the 1933 Czech film EXTASE (ECSTASY), which caused controversy at the time for its sexual content, particularly the sequence depicting the...

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  9. Shakespeare’s Restless World: New Science, Old Magic (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Ninth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...

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  10. Vernacular Tradition, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 25 minutes), £34.99

    Deals largely with the low-level mathematics of the Middle Ages and its application to problems of commerce and everyday life. Renaissance notational styles are compared by looking at the works of Luca...

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