Devadoss, Satyan L.
Summary: An authoriative guide to the mathematical shapes around us: how they're formed, how they're studied, and how they're applied to our everyday lives. With these lectures presented in three parts you will discover the intricate relationship between mathematics and nature, get a pointed introduction to the language mathematicians use to study shapes and dimensions, and learn how to finally make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 516 SHALivio, Mario
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 512.2 LIVDu Sautoy, Marcus.
Summary: A mathematician draws on scientific findings about the role of symmetry in understanding the dynamic relationship between objects, exploring such topics as the theory of fundamental particles, the role of symmetry in evolutionary biology, and the discovery of an enormous dimensional space snowflake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 516.1 DUSStarbird, Michael
Summary: Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Presents a collection of topics that reveal the rich, wondrous structure of what we see around us. Patterns in nature are the source of our geometrical understanding of the world. Abstracting those patterns leads to concepts from classical geometry. Extensions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MATSummary: A family explores paintings and other masterpieces at the art museum. The paintings are brilliant and many of them have mathematical dimensions, whether visible or hidden. Elementary math concepts that relate to perspective, composition, symmetry, and other principles turn a stroll through the art museum into an eye-opening adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TanTan Publishing 2015