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Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Nova takes viewers on a quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Join the agents of Odd Squad for a competition featuring crazy math challenges where the winner gets to be Ms. O for a day and run Odd Squad! Agent Otto is chosen to compete, but so is the villain Odd Todd, Agent Olive's former partner. Will Odd Todd eliminate each of his competitors and shut down Odd Squad forever if he wins?
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Martin's pursuit of the truth leads him to the West Coast. There, the deepening mystery explodes into a multi-faceted conspiracy involving a cult known as the Righteous 36, the CEO of a sinister corporation, one of the company's former officers, a deranged ex-priest, and the mother of a child who may prove instrumental in deciphering the code.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Single father Martin Bohm struggles to raise his emotionally challenged son Jake. But Martin soon discovers that Jake possesses an amazing gift: the ability to see the hidden patterns of numbers that connect every life on the planet. With the help of a brilliant professor, Martin learns to communicate with Jake and help people around the world.
13) The zero theorem
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story about a computer hacker in a dystopian sci-fi world. Living under constant surveillance by 'Management,' he strives to solve The Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that may hold the key to the meaning of life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.
17) Math circus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad and the ever wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add, and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.
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