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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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