# Life By The Numbers ★ PBS Mathematics Series with Study Guides, Book, and MKV

Life By The Numbers ★ PBS Mathematics Series with Study Guides, Book, and MKV . _ . Here's a 'Math Course' with no boring formulas or quizzes to get between you and the numbers themselves … you can take off your clothes and roll in them ! I found the source video DVDs here: https://archive.org/details/life-by-the-numbers-iso in the collection of Documentary Disc ISO Images - I'm grateful to the original uploader. Danny Glover hosts a fast-paced and surprising introduction to some of the many crucial roles mathematics plays in sports, work, education, exploration, chance, virtual reality, and life in general. If you believe you are not good at mathematics - this series is for you. From the smallest micro organism to the planets and the stars, life can be a wondrous journey of discovery where almost everywhere and everything is affected by numbers. Enter the exciting world of the Science of Mathematics - Life is all about the Numbers. From: https://web.archive.org/web/20131202162025/http://www.maa.org/review-life-by-the-numbers Quote: Keith Devlin, who was a consultant for the Life by the Numbers series, has some wise words for those who fear complexity in mathematics: "To most people, mathematics makes the world more complicated, it doesn't do that! Math makes the world more simple! Mathematicians are simplistic creatures. We look at the world in the simplest possible way. We look at it in such a simple way that the only way of capturing the simplicity is with symbols,…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 1998
- By: PBS
- Genres: Documentary, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/life-by-the-numbers)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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