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  1. You Can’t Polish a Nerd (2018)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 109 minutes), £11.93

    A recording of the third show from the 2017 tour of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, a show by scientists turn comedians Matt Parker, Helen Arney and Steve Mould. In YOU CAN"T POLISH A NERD, the trio show...

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  2. Mathematics Goes to the Movies (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Mathematics

    An enormous amount of our leisure time is spent interacting with the media, watching television and movies. Much of the space on our computers (and on the Internet) is taken up with static and moving images,...

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  3. Nuclear Reactors and Modelling (2017)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Podcast about mathematical modelling and linear programming. Rick Crawford, a mathematician studying decommissioning of nuclear reactors, explains how he uses mathematical models to determine whether it is...

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  4. Just for Graphs (2017)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 92 minutes), £11.93

    A recording of the 2016 tour of the Festival of The Spoken Nerd, a show by scientists turn comedians Matt Parker, Helen Arney and Steve Mould. Just for graphs walks the audience through visual...

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  5. The Great Math Mystery, The (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

    Documentary about the history and principles of mathematics presented by astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with other mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. The programme traces the...

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  6. Mathematics and Culture (2015)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

    Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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  7. Full Frontal Nerdity (2015)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 190 minutes), £11.93

    A recording of the first live tour of the Festival of The Spoken Nerd, a show by scientists turn comedians Matt Parker, Helen Arney and Steve Mould. The show explains and demonstrates scientific and...

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  8. Bellman Equation, The (2014)

    Director
    Gabriel Leif Bellman
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £15.99

    Gabriel Bellman examines the life of his grandfather Richard Bellman, a mathematician who invented dynamic programming. In the process, the filmmaker attempts to solve one of his subject’s most difficult...

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  9. Brief History of Mathematics, A (2014)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Science

    Podcasts. Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the...

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  10. Precision: The Measure of All Things (2013)

    Director
    Mike Cunliffe
    Producer
    Mark Woodward
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £41.99

    Series in which Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement....

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