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The Hunt for AI
Item# 52478
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-309-9
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is on a journey of discovery to find out just how close we are to creating machines that can think like human beings—and what it would mean if true artificial intelligen...
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Codebreakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
Item# 52447
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-278-8
During World War II, British mathematician Bill Tutte broke a code ten times tougher than Enigma, with the help of engineer Tommy Flowers, who designed the world’s first programmable computer to help...
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Breaking the Wall of Computer Stupidity: How Wavelet Analysis Improves Geophysics, Biology, and Art History
Item# 49393
© 2011
17 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-454-9
What if we could see through the issues of everyday life, convert them into numbers, and have a computer find the solution? The research of Ingrid Daubechies is based on the abstraction of the mathema...
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Breaking the Walls Between Economics, Physics, and Geometry: How Optimal Allocation of Resources and Entropy Meet in the Non-Euclidean World
Item# 49428
© 2011
16 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-488-4
Entropy, a measure of disorder and complexity, is omnipresent in our lives, affecting disciplines like physics, statistics, biology, information transfer, and innovations like the discovery...
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Taking a Chance: Key Probability Concepts
Item# 48956
© 2011
23 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-036-7
It may sound improbable for young people to be fascinated by the mathematics of chance and prediction—but this program will almost certainly make it happen! Set in the intriguing world of cards, coins...
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The Math Code
Item# 47382
© 2011
180 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-366-1
The geometry of a protein molecule, the shifting positions of constellations over time, the movement of people in crowds—is there a subtle code that connects them all? In this three-part series Oxford...
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The Math Code: Numbers
Item# 47383
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-367-8
Medieval philosophers believed that certain numbers had magical properties and, in a sense, they were right. This program explores irrational, negative, prime, and imaginary numbers and the surprising...
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The Math Code: Prediction
Item# 47385
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-369-2
For a few weeks every year starlings migrate, creating shifting, synchronized formations of nearly a million birds that flow across the sky like a well-choreographed dance. How does each bird anticipa...
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The Math Code: Shapes
Item# 47384
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-368-5
To some, Jackson Pollock’s art is a chaotic mass of paint, but those who love his work may be reacting to the fact that the splatters are actually fractals, and thus mirror the patterns of the natural...
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Algebra Applications
Item# 44706
© 2011
200 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-165-0
This ten-part series presents an impressive array of real-world applications of algebra, including an analysis of the 2008 mortgage crisis, calculation of a car’s speed determined by evidence left at...
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