Surprise! The Fractions Take Up No Space
(2018, original release: 2016)
Nonfiction
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
2681801
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
Drawing on the bizarre conclusions from the previous lecture, reach even more peculiar results by mapping all of the fractions (i.e., rational numbers) onto the number line, discovering that they take up no space at all! And this is just the start of the weirdness
Film
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James S. Tanton
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English