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Math Goes to the Movies By Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Math Goes to the Movies
- ISBN
- 9781421404844
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Math Goes to the Movies
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Item Weight
- 522 g
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through the cinematic calculus to create this thorough and entertaining survey of the quirky, fun, and beautiful mathematics to be found on the big screen. Math Goes to the Movies is based on the authors' own collection of more than 700 mathematical movies and their many years using movie clips to inject moments of fun into their courses. With more than 200 illustrations, many of them screenshots from the movies themselves, this book provides an inviting way to explore math, featuring such movies as: Good Will Hunting ; A Beautiful Mind ; Stand and Deliver ; Pi ; Die Hard ; The Mirror Has Two Faces . The authors use these iconic movies to introduce and explain important and famous mathematical ideas: higher dimensions, the golden ratio, infinity, and much more. Not all math in movies makes sense, however, and Polster and Ross talk about Hollywood's most absurd blunders and outrageous mathematical scenes. Interviews with mathematical consultants to movies round out this engaging journey into the realm of cinematic mathematics. This fascinating behind-the-scenes look at movie math shows how fun and illuminating equations can be.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9781421404844
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113142981
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Math Goes to the Movies
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
522 g
Item Width
156 mm
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United States
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