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This video comprises 2 compilation programmes of extracts from Open University prog...rammes introduced by uncredited members of Open University staff. The extracts have been selected to highlight the range of broadcasting techniques used to illustrate particular learning aspects of the courses. -- Programme 1. -- Renaissance and Reformation: the development of fresco. -- Mechanics and applied calculus: Rotating frames. -- Sociological perspective: Sects; yours for a harvest of souls. -- Electromag
The first of these five minute programmes looks at the golden ratio and the Fibonac...ci sequence, examining their prevalence in art, architecture and the natural world. The second programme introduces the Ethiopian system of multiplication. The third programme introduces the art of M.S. Escher. It explores the increasingly sophisticated mathematical elements in his art from early woodcuts, tessellations, visual illusions like the Myopia Strip, to later work that anticipates modern cosmology.
