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  1. Art of Asymptotic Approximation, The (1989)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor F G Leppington as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. In many mathematical problems the equations contain a small number called a...

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  2. Hollywood’s Hippest Mathematics: Random Matrices and Riemann Zeros (1989)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £12.50

    Recording of a lecture given by Dr Nina Snaith as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. Explains how physicists helped answer a hundred-year-old question about prime numbers and...

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  3. Chaology (1988)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £5.00

    Video of a lecture given by Professor M. Berry as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lectures series. In Newtonian mechanics the present state of a system determines its future, but that...

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  4. How Should a Mathematician Think About Shape? (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2006 hire: £5.00

    Video of a lecture given by Professor D G Kendall as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lectures series. One thinks about shape by creating a space in which each shape ‘lives’ at a...

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  5. Codes and Ciphers (1987)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor F C Piper as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. It introduces the art (or science!) of keeping information secret. One of the main...

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  6. Games That Solve Problems (1987)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 55 minutes), £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor W.A. Hodges as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. Mathematicians don’t just solve problems; they also find methods for solving new...

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  7. How Mathematics Gets into Knots (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 2006 hire: £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor R Brown as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. The lecture starts from the oldest known knot, dating from 7200 BC, and shows knotting...

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  8. Games Animals Play (1986)

    Subject
    Biology; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 38 minutes), £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by biologist Professor John Maynard Smith as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. He uses game theory to give an insight into animal contests (for...

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  9. Rise and Fall of Matrices, The (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 43 min., 2006 hire: £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor W Ledermann in the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. Professor W Ledermann describes the revolutionary paper in 1858 by Cayley and the change...

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