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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Polster, Burkard
Otros Autores: Ross, Marty, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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