The Joy of Mathematics (The Great Courses, 1411)

Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 173-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting.

Ready to exercise those brain cells? Humans have been having fun with mathematics for thousands of years. Along the way, they've discovered the amazing utility of this field—in science, engineering, finance, games of chance, and many other aspects of life. This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Although racing a calculator to solve a difficult problem may seem like a superhuman achievement, Professor Benjamin shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Professor Benjamin has another goal in this course: throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected—how the beautiful and often imposing edifice that has given us algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, probability, and so much else is based on nothing more than fooling around with numbers.

Contents:
Lecture 1 The Joy of Math—The Big Picture ;
Lecture 2 The Joy of Numbers ;
Lecture 3 The Joy of Primes ;
Lecture 4 The Joy of Counting ;
Lecture 5 The Joy of Fibonacci Numbers ;
Lecture 6 The Joy of Algebra ;
Lecture 7 The Joy of Higher Algebra ;
Lecture 8 The Joy of Algebra Made Visual ;
Lecture 9 The Joy of 9 ;
Lecture 10 The Joy of Proofs ;
Lecture 11 The Joy of Geometry ;
Lecture 12 The Joy of Pi ;
Lecture 13 The Joy of Trigonometry ;
Lecture 14 The Joy of the Imaginary Number i ;
Lecture 15 The Joy of the Number e ;
Lecture 16 The Joy of Infinity ;
Lecture 17 The Joy of Infinite Series ;
Lecture 18 The Joy of Differential Calculus ;
Lecture 19 The Joy of Approximating with Calculus ;
Lecture 20 The Joy of Integral Calculus ;
Lecture 21 The Joy of Pascal's Triangle ;
Lecture 22 The Joy of Probability ;
Lecture 23 The Joy of Mathematical Games ;
Lecture 24 The Joy of Mathematical Magic.