Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool - for iPod/iPhone
by The Open University
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Description
How can mathematics help us to understand the world around us? The tracks on this album take us to Antarctica, Hong Kong and New Zealand to find out how mathematicians work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of the most important mathematical tools - calculus, and modern mathematicians examine the contribution of its three inventors - Fermat, Newton and Leibniz. This material forms part of the Open University course MS221 Exploring mathematics.
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Mathematics: a powerful tool | An introduction to the tracks on this album. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Transcript -- Mathematics: a powerful tool | An introduction to the tracks on this album. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoMathematical modelling for real | An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Transcript -- Mathematical modelling for real | An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoAn ancient tradition | How bamboo scaffolding does its job. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Transcript -- An ancient tradition | How bamboo scaffolding does its job. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoHow maths helps dolphins | Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Transcript -- How maths helps dolphins | Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoPredicting climate change | Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Transcript -- Predicting climate change | Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoA vibrating lake | Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Transcript -- A vibrating lake | Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoWhy is maths useful? | How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Transcript -- Why is maths useful? | How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoWho invented Calculus? | The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first? | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Transcript -- Who invented Calculus? | The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first? | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoFermat’s ideas | An explanation of some of Fermat’s discoveries. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | Transcript -- Fermat’s ideas | An explanation of some of Fermat’s discoveries. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoFermat and John Wallis | How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Transcript -- Fermat and John Wallis | How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoIsaac Newton’s input | Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | Transcript -- Isaac Newton’s input | Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoNew insights emerge | Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | Transcript -- New insights emerge | Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoThe Newton-Leibniz dispute | How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | Transcript -- The Newton-Leibniz dispute | How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
