21L.016 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance (MIT)

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SP.2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics (MIT)
Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquir
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Another premium quality free book for class/grade-10 Mathematics by the courtesy of wikibooks. Following chapters have been covered in the book so far. Chapters Included: Primes AND Modular Logic Mathematical Proofs Set Theory and Infinite Processes Counting and Generating Functions Discrete Probability Matrices Further Modular Arithmetic Mathematical Programming Download and Enjoy http://www.educationjelly.com/downloads/ebooks/maths/Free_High_School_Mathematics.pdf Related posts:Grade-10 Free [
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SP.713 Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo (MIT)
2010 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's astonishing sightings of features on the moon, stars, and moons around Jupiter that no one had seen before. Recreate these new ways of seeing and exploring from the materials and techniques Galileo had on hand, while you reflect on the times and works of Galileo. What was it like to improvise new ways of seeing and exploring from the materials and techniques on hand? What do we notice? What surprises us? How can we relate to past experience and ideas
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Einstein's Blackboard
Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science, talks about one of the museum's prized exhibits, a blackboard Albert Einstein used in a lecture he gave to the university in 1931
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The Cool and Crazy Chemistry Show
What happens when you freeze a banana? What colour is liquid oxygen? Which makes a bigger bang, a hydrogen or helium balloon? Find out the answers to these and many more quirky chemistry questions in this exciting lecture.
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2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1
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