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Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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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.
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Transcript -- Mathematics: a powerful tool
An introduction to the tracks on this album.
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Mathematical modelling for real
An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
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Transcript -- Mathematical modelling for real
An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
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Transcript -- An ancient tradition
How bamboo scaffolding does its job.
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