Understand the Fun and Beauty 

 in Mathematical Concepts 



Discover how to think precisely, decisively, and creatively in 24 fascinating lectures 



Humans have been having fun 

 and games with mathematics for 

 thousands of years. Along the way, 

 they've discovered the amazing utility of 

 this field — in science, engineering, finance, 

 games of chance, and many other aspects 

 of life. 



Join Professor Arthur T. Benjamin to 

 experience The Joy of Mathematics in 



this course of 24 half-hour lectures. He is 

 nationally renowned lor feats of mental 

 calculation performed before audiences at 

 schools, theaters, museums, conferences, 

 and other venues, and he shows you that 

 there are simple tricks that allow anyone to 

 look like a "mathemagician." 



Professor Benjamin has another goal in 

 this course: Throughout the lectures, he 

 shows how everything in mathematics is 

 connected — how the beautiful and often 

 imposing discipline that has given us algebra, 

 geometry, calculus, probability, and so much 

 else is based on nothing more than fooling 

 around with numbers. 



Have You Forgotten Math? 

 Worry Not! 



Professor Benjamin gives his presentation 

 on the number 9 in — what else? — Lecture 

 9. Other lectures are devoted to pi, the 

 imaginary number i, the transcendental 

 number e, and infinity. These numbers are 

 gateways to intriguing realms of mathematics, 

 which you explore under Dr. Benjamin's 

 enthusiastic guidance. 



He also introduces you to prime numbers, 

 Fibonacci numbers, and infinite series. And 

 you investigate the powerful techniques 

 for manipulating numbers using algebra, 

 geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and 

 probability in lectures that may hark back 

 to subjects you studied in high school and 

 college. 



A Math Course Designed for You 



You will find Dr. Benjamin's introduction 

 to these fields both a useful refresher and 

 a bird's-eye view of the most important 

 areas of mathematics. He approaches 

 these topics from a new perspective — 

 combinatorics — and mathematical games, 



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providing a fun entry into subjects that are 

 often taught in a lackluster way. 



Dr. Benjamin assumes you have no more 

 than a distant memory of high school math. 

 He believes that it is his job to fan those 

 embers into a burning interest in the subject 

 he loves so much — and in which he takes 

 such exquisite joy. 



About Your Professor 



Arthur T. Benjamin is Professor of 

 Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, where 

 he has taught since 1989. He earned a 

 Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns 

 Hopkins University. The Mathematical 

 Association of America honored him with 

 national awards for distinguished teaching 

 in 1999 and 2000 and named him the 

 George Polya Lecturer for 2006-08. 



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Lecture Titles 



oy of Math — The Big Picture 

 oy of Numbers 

 oy of Primes 

 oy of Counting 

 oy of Fibonacci Numbers 

 oy of Algebra 

 oy of Higher Algebra 

 oy of Algebra Made Visual 

 oy of 9 

 oy of Proofs 

 oy of Geometry 

 oy of Pi 



oy of Trigonometry 

 oy of the Imaginary Number i 

 oy of the Number e 

 oy of Infinity 

 oy of Infinite Series 

 oy of Differential Calculus 

 oy of Approximating 

 Calculus 



oy of Integral Calculus 

 oy of Pascal's Triangle 

 oy of Probability 

 oy of Mathematical Games 

 oy of Mathematical Magic 



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