David Stump
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From: J.G.Fauvel@open.ac.uk
To: stumpd@usfca.edu
Cc: j.j.gray@open.ac.uk, F.C.Holroyd@open.ac.uk
Subject: OU Mathematics films
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:04:39 +0100
Dear David,
Jeremy Gray has drawn my attention to your appeal for information about
Mathematics films. We have made quite a large number here at the Open
University, including two series on history of mathematics and a variety
of others using historical topics as a contributory resource to mathematics
courses. Probably the best way in is for you to look at the OU's web page
which lists them all and gives details of how to acquire them.
http://www3.open.ac.uk/videos/ouw.dll?DESC694
The series that Jim Kiernan was referring to as "the best series I have
seen" is the series of eight programmes for our course MA290 'Topics in
the History of Mathematics'. Those made for other courses include the
history of computation film 'Wood Brass and Baboon Bones' which I sent
a list message about earlier today, the one Robin Wilson circulated the
list about on the four-colour theorem called 'Only four colours', and a
film on the life and legacy of Galois.
I look forward to seeing your list in due course,
All good wishes, John Fauvel
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To: stumpd@usfca.edu
From: kessel@soe.berkeley.edu (Cathy Kessel)
Subject: Re: [HM] math films
Here are two (both listed at the media center at UC Berkeley):
N is a number : a portrait of Paul Erdos, a documentary film / by George
Paul Csicsery. [videorecording] Oakland, Calif. : George Paul Csicsery,
c1993. VHS. Media Center VIDEO/C 4355
Was Newton's calculus just a dead end : Maclaurin and the Scottish
connection / Judith V. Grabiner. [videorecording] Washington, DC :
Mathematical Assoc. of America, 1991. VHS. AMS-MAA joint lecture
series [videorecording] Media Center VIDEO/C 2285
I have seen "N is a Number" twice, but have only seen Grabiner's live
talk--not the video. The talk was great, so I imagine the video would
be as well.
--Cathy
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:04:16 +0000
From: Richard Mankiewicz <richard@tutorcom.dircon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [HM] math films
To: David Stump <stumpd@usfca.edu>
Life by the Numbers, by WQED Pittsburgh, broadcast on PBS this year
and available on video (NTSC). 8 hours of maths as applied to modern
life. haven't saved the URL but is on the PBS site.
Also Videomath Festival, avideo of shorts mainly animations of maths
concepts. contact Hans-Christian hege on hege@zib.de
Richard
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David J. Stump
Department of Philosophy
University of San Francisco phone (415) 422-6153
San Francisco, CA 94118 FAX (415) 422-2346
USA email stumpd@usfca.edu