Mathematical Documentaries

twistor59 · #1 by **twistor59** » Nov 12, 2011 9:46 am

are available here.

BlackBart · #2 by **BlackBart** » Nov 12, 2011 9:58 am

Oooooh! Input!

Teshi · #3 by **Teshi** » Nov 13, 2011 9:34 am

These are online?

Last year I spent ages trying to find suitable mathematical documentaries that I could show to kids and there was a huge collection here available online the whole time?

twistor59 · #4 by **twistor59** » Nov 13, 2011 9:43 am

Teshi wrote:These are online?

Last year I spent ages trying to find suitable mathematical documentaries that I could show to kids and there was a huge collection here available online the whole time?

Maybe. I only just found them. Saw a link on another forum (I've already forgotten which forum it was !).

cavarka9 · #5 by **cavarka9** » Nov 13, 2011 11:09 am

internet is reshaping all our how we use our memory!. We now believe we dont have to remember anything, we are going to open our cell phone or tune into Google and we will find it!.

twistor59 · #6 by **twistor59** » Nov 13, 2011 11:55 am

cavarka9 wrote:internet is reshaping all our how we use our memory!. We now believe we dont have to remember anything, we are going to open our cell phone or tune into Google and we will find it!.

Mmm yeah I sometimes wonder about what the positive and negative effects of the internet on ability to think and reason are. I know that pre-internet I had to work had to remember stuff I needed for my study/research but now it's all available from a quick google. But is this good or bad ? Does it free up mental capacity for processing rather than storing ? Are they interchangeable ?

There are certainly some good apects to it - if I wanted to look up some technical term like "instanton expansion" for example, I would have to spend an afternoon in the library looking through journals, but now, ka-boom, I can get some references straight away. This is good, but that afternoon in the library made me read about a whole lot of other stuff which gradually accumulated an eventually became useful.

Dunno....it's a bit off topic, but since I'm the OP, I don't care :lol:

cavarka9 · #7 by **cavarka9** » Nov 13, 2011 1:13 pm

Considering that I have a terrible memory, its a boon :lol:

. Honsetly, but earlier because I knew that I have bad memory, I used to be very careful about the "things to remember", write down phone numbers or try hard to remember etc. Now, if I were to lose my cell phone, I would be an orphan. Hmmm, there must be a good theory one can come up with, in terms of how much energy we shall have to spend in order to keep track of our memory or how much of cognitive space it takes up to remember something, is there such a thing at all , its also got to do with entropy too I think(information). Is memory physically lost if we stop using it?.

they could come up with some cool experiments, kids who have to memorize a lot of words and symbols and also learn say differential eqs vs kids who only have to learn diff eqs.

Teshi · #8 by **Teshi** » Nov 15, 2011 7:25 am

This is good, but that afternoon in the library made me read about a whole lot of other stuff which gradually accumulated an eventually became useful.

I once spent an off-topic afternoon reading old translated Soviet Union newspapers. Fascinating.

I get your point; trawling through the library trying to find a source does mean you are seeing a lot of other ideas while you are there that, as you say, eventually builds up.

Ihavenofingerprints · #9 by **Ihavenofingerprints** » Nov 15, 2011 7:36 am

hackenslash · **#10** by **hackenslash** » Nov 15, 2011 7:38 am

Excellent! Cheers, Twist, just what I've been looking for.