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How can mathematics help us to understand the world around us? The tracks on this album take us to Antarctica, Hong Kong and New Zealand to find out how mathematicians work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of the most important mathematical tools - calculus, and modern mathematicians examine the contribution of its three inventors - Fermat, Newton and Leibniz. This material forms part of The Open University course MS221 Exploring mathematics.
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Transcript -- Mathematics: a powerful tool from 2009-07-15T01:56:07
An introduction to the tracks on this album.
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Mathematical modelling for real from 2009-07-15T01:55:08
An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
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Transcript -- Mathematical modelling for real from 2009-07-15T01:55:07
An introduction to mathematical modelling in the real world.
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Transcript -- An ancient tradition from 2009-07-15T01:54:07
How bamboo scaffolding does its job.
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How maths helps dolphins from 2009-07-15T01:53:08
Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.
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Transcript -- How maths helps dolphins from 2009-07-15T01:53:07
Using statistical modelling to calculate endangered species’ survival rates.
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Predicting climate change from 2009-07-15T01:52:08
Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.
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Transcript -- Predicting climate change from 2009-07-15T01:52:07
Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica.
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Transcript -- A vibrating lake from 2009-07-15T01:51:07
Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu.
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Why is maths useful? from 2009-07-15T01:50:08
How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics.
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Transcript -- Why is maths useful? from 2009-07-15T01:50:07
How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics.
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Who invented Calculus? from 2009-07-15T01:49:08
The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first?
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Transcript -- Who invented Calculus? from 2009-07-15T01:49:07
The birth of calculus resulted in controversy: who got there first?
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Transcript -- Fermat’s ideas from 2009-07-15T01:48:07
An explanation of some of Fermat’s discoveries.
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Fermat and John Wallis from 2009-07-15T01:47:08
How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis.
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Transcript -- Fermat and John Wallis from 2009-07-15T01:47:07
How Fermat communicated his findings to Wallis.
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Isaac Newton’s input from 2009-07-15T01:46:08
Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.
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Transcript -- Isaac Newton’s input from 2009-07-15T01:46:07
Newton invents the binomial theorem and publishes his great work Principia Mathematica.
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New insights emerge from 2009-07-15T01:45:08
Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together.
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Transcript -- New insights emerge from 2009-07-15T01:45:07
Leibniz and the physicist Huygens work together.
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The Newton-Leibniz dispute from 2009-07-15T01:44:08
How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.
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Transcript -- The Newton-Leibniz dispute from 2009-07-15T01:44:07
Transcript -- How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.
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Transcript -- The Newton-Leibniz dispute from 2009-07-15T01:44:07
Transcript -- How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.
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Transcript -- The Newton-Leibniz dispute from 2009-07-15T01:44:07
How the birth of calculus was a truly international effort.
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