Great courses (DVD)

Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary, and bibliography

Ready to exercise those brain cells? Professor Arthur T. Benjamin is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and in this series, he shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. 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

Producers, Jaimee Aigret, Zachary H. Rhoades ; academic content supervisors, Jay Tate, Joan Burton ; directors, Jon Leven, Jim Allen ; camera operators, Jim Allen, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois, Jack Dierken

Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Arthur T. Benjamin, Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College

DVD

Disc 1. Part 1.

Joy of math : the big picture -- Joy of numbers -- Joy of primes -- Joy of counting -- Joy of Fibonacci numbers -- Joy of algebra

Disc 2. Part 1.

Joy of higher algebra -- Joy of algebra made visual -- Joy of 9 -- Joy of proofs -- Joy of geometry -- Joy of pi

Disc 3. Part 2.

Joy of trigonometry -- Joy of the imaginary number i -- Joy of the number e -- Joy of infinity -- Joy of infinite series -- Joy of differential calculus

Disc 4. Part 2.

Joy of approximating with calculus -- Joy of integral calculus -- Joy of Pascal's triangle -- Joy of probability -- Joy of mathematical games -- Joy of mathematical magic