6 ON ARCHIMEDES PATH | |||||||||||||||
CONTENT DIRECTOR | MUSIC | ||||||||||||||
Tiago Costa | |||||||||||||||
Sueli Costa, Maria Alice Grou | |||||||||||||||
CONTRIBUTOR | |||||||||||||||
ART DIRECTOR | |||||||||||||||
Fernando Passos | |||||||||||||||
Screenplay co-author and art director supporter - Taunay Daniel
Production team - Centro de Comunicaçio Unicamp Brazil Cooperation with Sezzione de Cinematografia Scientifica - CNR Italy (Univ. of Bologna) Financial support - PADCT/CAPES (Brazilian Governmental Agency for support in Research and University Teaching) |
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FURTHER INFORMATION | |||||||||||||||
An extended version (13') of this sequence was produced in Portuguese, Spanish
and English at the University of Campinas-Unicamp, Brasil, with support of the
PADCT/CAPES Foundation.
www.emu.ime.unicamp.br |
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SUMMARY | |||||||||||||||
CONTACT | |||||||||||||||
The film focuses on the historical development of a very fertile idea: the atomization or successive approximation principle used in area and volume calculations. We emphasize especially (and get inspiration from) Archimedes' ideas on volume proportions described in "The Method" and how they were recovered and developed by the so called Galileo School in the period just before the advent of calculus. | |||||||||||||||
Sueli Costa
UNICAMP Campinas State University 13.083-570 - Campinas - SP BRAZIL Tel: +55.192.874642
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