A Casinha da Matemática

A Álgebra é generosa; ela frequentemente dá mais do que aquilo que lhe é pedido. (D'Alembert)

Category: Matemática

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Matemática / Vídeo

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi, BBC, 1996)

Breaking The Code tells the story of a mathematical genius, Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi) who, seconded to the top secret Bletchley Park England during World War II, was responsible for designing the first computer, which enabled the allies to crack the German Enigma code and, some would argue, win the war. It was on Churchill’s specific instructions that Turing was given all the resources he required – and his personal behavior tolerated: Turing was a practicing homosexual at a time … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing

The story of the British genius and war hero ALAN TURING, mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary

The story of the British genius and war hero ALAN TURING, mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionar.
From the BBC TV science series Horizon (1992).

The story of Alan Turing, credited by many as the father of the modern digital computer. The programme highlights the importance of Turing’s early interest in logic and mathematics, as well as his later work during the Second World War at Bletchley Park where he was involved in breaking the code used by the German … Ler mais

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Vídeo / Matemática

RAMANUJAN: Letters from an Indian Clerk

A Christopher J. Sykes documentary for the Channel 4 'Equinox' science series

The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.

A 1987 documentary for the Channel 4 ‘Equinox’ science series.

 

 

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The genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

“The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan” features well-known number theorists from around the world associated with Ramanujan’s oeuvre, most notably A. Raghuram and Ken Ono

“The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan” features well-known number theorists from around the world associated with Ramanujan’s oeuvre, most notably A. Raghuram and Ken Ono.

Shot at various locations in Chennai, Namakkal, Kumbakonam, Erode, and Cambridge, this documentary highlights the trajectory of Ramanujan’s seminal work and its relevance today.

His scientific legacy continues to grow well beyond anything that previous generations of mathematicians could have ever imagined. 2012 was declared the the “National Year of Mathematics” in India to commemorate the … Ler mais

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Vídeo / Matemática

RAMANUJAN

‘Ramanujan’ tells the human story of an Indian mathematician who languished in the grip of a disdainful society and a scornful academia

Set in the early 1900’s British India and England, ‘Ramanujan’ revolves around the life and times of the mathematical prodigy, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Directed by the award-winning director of ‘Mogha Mul’, ‘Bharati’ and ‘Periyar’, Gnana Rajasekaran, the film is being made simultaneously in English and Tamil.

‘Ramanujan’ tells the human story of an Indian mathematician who languished in the grip of a disdainful society and a scornful academia. It means to demonstrate the genius that enabled him to overcome the … Ler mais

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The Man Who Walks Differently: Perelman’s Lesson

Documentário: Grigori Perelman

A Russian documentary about Perelman in which his work is discussed by several leading mathematicians including Mikhail Gromov was released in 2011 under the title “Иноходец. Урок Перельмана“, “The Man Who Walks Differently: Perelman’s Lesson.”

Grigory Perelman está cansado da matemática e dos matemáticos

(Jornal Público,

Um génio matemático acaba de ser contemplado com um prémio de um milhão de dólares por ter resolvido um dos sete problemas mais difíceis da matemática,

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Matemática / Vídeo

The Great Math Mystery

Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe?

Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math’s astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math’s signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of … Ler mais

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Beautiful Equations

Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations

Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter.

Along the way he discovers why Newton was right about those falling apples and how to make sense of E=mc2. As he gets to grips with these equations he wonders … Ler mais

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Why U / Matemática / Vídeo

Why U

Material for mathematics courses on the K-12 and college levels

Why U animated videos are designed as collateral material for mathematics courses on the K-12 and college levels, and as a resource for informal independent study. Rather than focusing on procedural problem solving, the objective is to give insight into the concepts on which the rules of mathematics are based.

Why U creators are currently working on the series of animated lectures entitled “Algebra”. This series examines the concepts on which Algebra, as well as higher mathematics, is based. The … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

Topics in the History of Mathematics

BBC Open University Productions
  1. The Emergence of Greek Mathematics
  2. The Vernacular Tradition
  3. Marin Mersenne: The Birth of Modern Geometry
  4. The Founding of the Royal Society
  5. The Birth of Calculus
  6. Non-Euclidean Geometry
  7. Paris and the New Mathematics
  8. The Liberation of Álgebra

The Emergence of Greek Mathematics

Euclid’s ‘Elements’ is one of the world’s most reprinted books. How did it come about and why does it remain a classic textbook? Examines the 13 books in detail starting with the idea of proof.

The

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Matemática / Vídeo

Más por menos

Desde el número áureo hasta el mundo de las gráficas pasando por las cónicas o las leyes del azar

La serie educativa “Más por menos“, de La aventura del saber (RTVE, 2000), se presenta dentro de un conjunto de propuestas didácticas y materiales interactivos que facilitan su utilización en el aula.

La serie, que consta de 12 documentales de 18 minutos cada uno, persigue acercar al gran público aquellos aspectos de las Matemáticas que convierten a esta materia científica en algo atractivo, interesante y útil en un sinfín de manifestaciones de nuestra actividad cotidiana.

Sus contenidos, estructura … Ler mais

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Vídeo / Matemática

CAOS – Uma Aventura Matemática

Um filme para todos

CAOS é um filme sobre matemática constituído por nove capítulos, de treze minutos cada um.

Trata-se de um filme para todo o público sobre sistemas dinâmicos, o efeito borboleta e a teoria do caos.

Como em DIMENSIONS, este filme é distribuído sob a licença de Creative Commons e foi produzido por Jos Leys, Étienne Ghys et Aurélien Alvarez.

CAOS está disponível em uma grande variedade de idiomas e legendas.

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INSPIRATIONS

A short movie inspired on Escher´s works and a free vision on how it could be his workplace

 

“When this animation project started to take their first steps I intended to bring life to a large and extensive still life, flying over it in a manner similar to that fantastic intro created for the opening credits of a French film called Delicatessen.

But then I still had not found the motif, the main characters of the action. So I looked into that enormous and inexhaustible source of inspiration that is Escher and tried to imagine how it … Ler mais

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Matemática / Vídeo

Marcus du Sautoy: The Code

BBC Two - Apresentado por Marcus du Sautoy
A mysterious code underpins the world. But what does it mean and what can we learn from it? Marcus du Sautoy takes us on an odyssey to uncover the code and reveal its meaning. Ler mais