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Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg / by Maor, Eli,author.(CARDINAL)757647;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclature -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans.How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.
Subjects: Music; Music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Babylonian theorem : the mathematical journey to Pythagoras and Euclid / by Rudman, Peter Strom.(CARDINAL)544024; Rudman, Peter Strom.How mathematics happened, the first 50,000 years.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Euclid.; Pythagoras.; Mathematics, Ancient.; Mathematics, Babylonian.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great equations : breakthroughs in science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg / by Crease, Robert P.(CARDINAL)748794;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Equations; Science; Science; Mathematicians; Scientists;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The math book : from Pythagoras to the 57th dimension, 250 milestones in the history of mathematics / by Pickover, Clifford A.(CARDINAL)329147;
MARCIVE 2/03/11Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-525) and index.Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. --from publisher description
Subjects: Mathematics;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The night villa : a novel / by Goodman, Carol.(CARDINAL)341637;
Narrowly escaping with her life after a gunman storms the University of Texas campus, classics professor Sophie Chase joins an expedition to recover ancient papyrus manuscripts buried in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and uncovers the gripping story of an ancient Roman slave girl, while a secret and powerful cabal will stop at nothing to gain control of the scrolls.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Pythagoras; College teachers; Cults; Excavations (Archaeology); Women classicists;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Ancient mathematicians / by Staeger, Rob.(CARDINAL)663924;
Includes bibliographical references (page 109) and index.Mathematicians in ancient Greece -- Pythagoras -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Hypatia -- Source.After a brief overview of the role of mathematics in ancient Greece, the book profiles Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes, and Hypatia.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Mathematicians; Mathematicians; Mathematics, Ancient.; Mathematics, Greek.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The magic mirror of M. C. Escher / by Ernst, Bruno.(CARDINAL)311617;
Subjects: Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.; Printmakers;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Great ideas of science. / by Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992.(CARDINAL)155738; Ames, Lee J.,illustrator.(CARDINAL)356104;
Discusses the background of thought leading to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of such scientists as Darwin, Pythagoras, Newton, and Galileo.
Subjects: Science; Scientists;
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The Pythagorean theorem : the story of its power and beauty / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Proving the Pythagorean Theorem without (many) words -- Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem -- Pythagorean triples and their properties -- The Pythagorean means -- Tuning the soul : Pythagoras and music -- The Pythagorean Theorem in fractal art -- About the mathematics work that led to the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry : thanks ultimately to Pythagoras / by Herbert A. Hauptman -- Pictorial depictions of Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Appendix A. Some selected proofs -- Appendix B. Some more proofs and solutions -- Appendix C. List of primitive Pythagorean triples -- Appendix D. List of Pythagorean triples : primitive and nonprimitive.
Subjects: Pythagorean theorem.;
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Donald in Mathmagic Land [videorecording] by Banta, Milt.; Berg, Bill.; Haber, Heinz.; Luske, Hamilton S.; Disney Educational Productions.(CARDINAL)196898; Walt Disney Company.(CARDINAL)187989;
Director of photography, Edward Colman ; editor, Lloyd L. Richardson ; music, Buddy Baker ; animation, Jerry Hathcock ... [et al.].No credits on packaging.Animated. Donald Duck gets a lesson in math appreciation when he is shown the relevance of math in everyday life. Donald wanders into a mysterious land filled with numbers, shapes, and peculiar symbols. "The Spirit of Adventure" (narrator) informs the skeptical duck that he is about to embark on a journey through the wonderland of mathematics. Donald is whisked back to ancient Greece to meet Pythagoras, the father of math and music. After eavesdropping on a secret meeting of Pythagoreans and turning their serene musical trio into a riotous quartet, Donald continues on his journey. He takes on numerous roles, including art critic, nature observer, billiards player, baseball player, and even Lewis Carroll's Alice. Through his adventures in Mathmagic Land, Donald comes to appreciate how measurements, calculations, shapes, and ratios contribute to music, architecture and art, nature, games, and inventions of all kinds, as well as the role of math in the future.Grade level: 4-12.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Duck, Donald (Fictitious character); Animated films.; Children's films.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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