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Math goes to the movies /
Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross have pored...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Movies. Good math hunting
- The clever hand behind A beautiful mind
- Escalante stands and delivers
- The annotated Pi files
- Nitpicking in mathemagic land
- Escape from the cube
- The incredible shrinking room
- Murder in the hot house
- A word problem for die hards
- 7 x 13 = 28
- One mirror has tow faces, two mirrors have ...
- It's my turn for some serious mathematics
- pt. 2. Mathematics. Beautiful math, or better off dead
- Pythagoras and Fermat at the movies
- Survival in the fourth dimension
- To infinity and beyond!
- Problem corner
- Money-back bloopers
- The funny files
- pt. 3. Lists. People lists
- Topics lists
- Movie index.