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Concepts in mathematics.

Title
Concepts in mathematics. Complex numbers / producer/director, David Chamberlain.
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Chamberlain, David.
  • Moriarty, James.
  • Postnikov, Brian.
  • Amadio, John.
  • Goetzelman, Vlad.
  • Ellis, Suzanne Grew.
  • TVOntario.
  • Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Description
6 videocassettes (60 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
  • The history of complex numbers begins 40,000 years ago when whole numbers (integers) were used to count livestock. When measurement and the numberline were introduced, fractions, smaller than a whole unit, negative numbers, and the zero were developed. Infinitely large numbers had no upper or lower limit in a number system. In the 6th century B.C., irrational numbers were discovered. Square roots of negative integers produced no real numbers.
  • In the 16th century, Italian mathematicians introduced the "imaginary" quantity "i" which, when squared, gives the result of -1. Numbers involving "i" are now called imaginary numbers. Complex numbers consist of a real part and an imaginary part. This videorecording solves equations with complex numbers in a Cartesian plane step-by-step. Many branches of modern engineering depend on their use.
Alternative Title
Complex numbers
Subject
Numbers, Complex
Note
  • Originally produced by TVOntario, c1996.
  • "FFH7011-FFH7016"--Spines of containers.
Credits (note)
  • Producer/director, David Chamberlain; writer, James Moriarty; consultants, Brian Postnikov, John Amadio; animation design, Vladimir Goetzelman, Brian Postnikov.
System Details (note)
  • VHS format.
Contents
cassette [1] Flights of fancy -- cassette [2] Smooth operator -- cassette [3] Complex made simple -- cassette [4] Rooting about for numbers -- cassette [5] More than meets the "i" -- cassette [6] Nothing impedes like success.
OCLC
  • 37911460
  • ocm37911460
  • SCSB-3510610
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries