Category: Matemática
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A Queda Livre – Galileu Descreve o Movimento
Parte 5 de 6 da série A mecânica de Galileu
Soluções dos Desafios
Desafio 1
Houve muitos trabalhos que antecederam o de Galileu, no que diz respeito ao movimento. No período de 1280 a 1340, matemáticos de Merton College, em Oxford, meditaram cuidadosamente sobre diversas grandezas que variavam com …
Galileu descreve o movimento
A Queda Livre – Galileu Descreve o Movimento
Parte 4 de 6 da série A mecânica de Galileu
Galileu descreve o movimento
Galileu e o seu tempo
Retrato de Galileu Galilei.
Óleo sobre tela por Justus Sustermans. Pintado em 1636 e oferecido por Galileu a um amigo em Paris. Mais tarde fez parte da coleção de Ferdimnado II …
A teoria aristotélica do movimento
A Queda Livre – Galileu Descreve o Movimento
Parte 3 de 6 da série A mecânica de Galileu
A teoria aristotélica do movimento
Diagrama do Universo, segundo Aristóteles e Ptolomeu, da edição de 1524 da Cosmographia, de Peter Apian.
O modelo de Universo de Ptolomeu era essencialmente o aristotélico, ou seja, um cosmo finito, constituído de esferas concêntricas, …
O Museu Galileu
A Queda Livre – Galileu Descreve o Movimento
Parte 2 de 6 da série A mecânica de Galileu
Museu Galileu – Instituto e Museu da História da Ciência
O prédio que abriga o museu é o Palazzo Castellani, que surgiu na região do Castello d’Altafronte – datado de finais do século XI, era a fortaleza que protegia …
Introdução à mecânica de Galileu
A Queda Livre – Galileu Descreve o Movimento
Parte 1 de 6 da série A mecânica de Galileu
Na presença do Grão-Duque, Galileu realiza a experiência da queda dos corpos na Torre Inclinada de Pisa. Tempera de gesso por Luigi Catani , 1816 (Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, Quartiere Borbonico o Nuovo Palatino, sala 15)
Abordaremos o desenvolvimento de um …
Beautiful Young Minds
Documentary following a group of brilliant teenagers as they fight to become the chosen six to represent the UK at the International Mathematical Olympiad
As part of the Kidult season, this documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted teenagers from over 90 countries compete for medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The film follows a group of brilliant teenagers as they battle …
Bletchley Park: Code-breaking’s Forgotten Genius
Documentary looking at Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II
Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park.
Filmed extensively at Bletchley Park, the centre for codebreaking operations during World War II, this documentary features the abandoned buildings …
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
Documentary revealing the secret story of how two men hacked into Hitler's personal super-code machine
Documentary that reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler’s personal super-code machine – not Enigma but an …
Cosmic Eye
A state-of-the-art view of the Universe
Cosmic Eye is a short film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a young lady called “Louise”. According to the developer, the …
Cosmic Voyage
Offers a state of the art, computer generated journey through the universe, and tries to pinpoint the role of human beings cohabitating within its vastness
Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film produced in the IMAX format, directed by Bayley Silleck, produced by Jeffrey Marvin, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. The film was presented by the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Air and Space Museum, and played in IMAX theaters worldwide. The …
Cosmic Zoom
This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell
Cosmic Zoom is a 1968 short film directed by Eva Szasz and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It depicts the relative size of everything in the universe in an 8-minute sequence using animation and animation camera shots.
The film starts with an aerial image of a …
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps
This unique book takes you on a graphic journey through the universe, to the edge of infinity in one direction and to the nucleus of the atom in the other
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps is a 1957 book by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny. The book begins with a photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside a …
Trillion Dollar Bet
The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earned its creators the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics
In 1973, three brilliant economists, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, discovered a mathematical Holy Grail that revolutionized modern finance. The elegant formula they unleashed upon the world was sparse and deceptively simple, yet it led to the creation of a multi-trillion dollar industry. Their bold …
Horizon: The Midas Formula
A beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world
This is the extraordinary story of a beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world, the financial markets, and indeed capitalism itself. It could do the unthinkable – it took the risk out of playing the money-markets. To its inventors it brought the Nobel Prize for economics. To those who …
Évariste Galois (Alexandre Astruc, 1965)
Les dernières heures du génial mathématicien mort en duel à l’âge de 21 ans
C’est un court-métrage de 25 minutes.
Rarement les maths ont été intégrées à un film avec un tel respect de la discipline. Une poignée de dialogues ne seront intelligibles qu’aux anciens élèves de maths-spé ayant bonne mémoire. Mais cela n’empêchera pas le vulgum pecus de comprendre dans quelle mesure les …
