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"This course celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues. Although racing a calculator to solve a difficult problem may seem like a superhuman achievement, Professor Benjamin shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Professor Benjamin has another goal in this course: throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected--how the beautiful and often imposing edifice that has given us algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, probability, and so much else is based on nothing more than fooling around with numbers"--Publisher's web site.… (more)
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24 30 lectures
4 DVDs
  herriot | Sep 7, 2018 |
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 1411
Taught by Arthur T. Benjamin
Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  MCGThomeschoolers | Aug 17, 2008 |
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Scope: For most people, mathematics is little more than counting: basic arithmetic and bookkeeping.
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The first edition Joy of Mathematics was originally issued on VHS and was authored by Murray H. Siegel.  This second edition was authored by Arthur T. Benjamin and was released on DVD.
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"This course celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues. Although racing a calculator to solve a difficult problem may seem like a superhuman achievement, Professor Benjamin shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Professor Benjamin has another goal in this course: throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected--how the beautiful and often imposing edifice that has given us algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, probability, and so much else is based on nothing more than fooling around with numbers"--Publisher's web site.

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