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Life By the Numbers [VHS] (1999)

 NR |  VHS Tape
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)


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  • Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Number of tapes: 7
  • Studio: Monterey Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: August 3, 1999
  • Run Time: 399 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000023VUQ
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,711 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff you never knew existed, June 25, 2001
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Chuck Biehl (North East, MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life By the Numbers [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Danny Glover hosts this series originally aired by PBS. In each of the hour-long programs, there are a number of related segments, providing a look at mathematics that most high school (and even college!) graduates rarely experience. True, there is some "traditional" material, like statistics and probability, but most of the material is very contemporary, and extremely interesting. Topics include: possible shapes for a closed yet infinite universe, how IMax movies and "virtual" amusement park rides are designed (computational geometry- the basis for all computer graphics), how discrete graphs are used to track shopping habits (part of a HUGE field called data mining), the experience of "seeing" space that has more than three physical dimensions, how GPS works, and the list goes on. This is an excellent learning and teaching tool, as well as being very entertaining. For folks who only think of mathematics in terms of what they learned in school, this series is a very eye-opening and informative experience.
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