March 29, 2012
Chaos
An introduction and explanation of the basic concepts through to the higher level concepts of the theory of Chaos. ~Mike
Part 1. lecture 1. The chaos revolution -- lecture 2. The clockwork universe -- lecture 3. From clockwork to chaos -- lecture 4. Chaos found and lost again -- lecture 5. The return of chaos -- lecture 6. Chaos as disorder--the butterfly effect -- lecture 7. Picturing chaos as order--strange attractors -- lecture 8. Animating chaos as order--iterated maps -- lecture 9. How systems turn chaotic -- lecture 10. Displaying how systems turn chaotic -- lecture 11. Universal features of the rought to chaos -- lecture 12. Experimental tests of the new theory --|a Part 2. lecture 13. Fractals--the geomtery of chaos -- lecture 14. The properties of fractals -- lecture 15. A new concept of dimension -- lecture 16. Fractals around us -- lecture 17. Fractals inside us -- lecture 17. Fractals inside us -- lecture 18. Fractal art -- lecture 18. Fractal art -- lecture 19. Embracing chaos--from tao to space travel -- lecture 20. Cloaking messages with chaos -- lecture 21. Chaos in health and disease -- lecture 22. Quantum chaos -- lecture 23. Synchronization -- lecture 24. The future of science.
Taught by: Professor Steven Strogatz, Cornell University.
4 videodiscs 720 minutes
Askwith Media Library 54705-D 2008
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The queen of the sciences
This is an outstanding series. It covers the basics to higher level math concepts. However being a "talking head" presentation intitiative may be required. ~Mike
Pt. 1, lecture 1. What is mathematics? -- lecture 2. Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics -- lecture 3. Greek mathematics, Thales to Euclid -- lecture 4. Greek mathematics, Archimedes to Hypatia -- lecture 5. Astronomy and the origins of trigonometry -- lecture 6. Indian mathematics, trigonometry blossoms -- lecture 7. Chinese mathematics, advances in computation -- lecture 8. Islamic mathematic, the creation of algebra -- lecture 9. Italian algebraists solve the cube -- lecture 10. Napier and the natural logarithm -- lecture 11. Galileo and the mathematics of motion -- lecture 12. Fermat, Descartes, and analytic geometry.
pt. 2, lecture 13. Newton, modeling the universe -- lecture 14. Leibniz and the emergence of calculus -- lecture 15. Euler, calculus proves its promise -- lecture 16. Geometry, from Alhambra to Escher -- lecture 17. Gauss, invention of differential geometry -- lecture 18. Algebra becomes the science of symmetry -- lecture 19. Modern analysis, Fourier to Carleson -- lecture 20. Riemann sets new directions for analysis -- lecture 21. Sylvester and Ramanujan, different worlds -- lecture 22. Fermat's last theorem, the final triumph -- lecture 23. Mathematics, the ultimate physical reality -- lecture 24. Problems and prospects for the 21st century.
4 DVDs 720 minute Lecturer: David M. Bressoud, Macalester College.
Askwith Media Library 49368-D 2008
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