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MIT Open Courseware - Linear Algebra

This course has been designed for independent study. It provides everything you will need to understand the concepts covered in the course. The materials include:
A complete set of Lecture Videos by Professor Gilbert Strang.
Summary Notes for all videos along with suggested readings in Prof. Strang’s textbook Linear Algebra.
Problem Solving Videos on every topic taught by an experienced MIT Recitation Instructor.
Problem Sets to do on your own with Solutions to check your answers against when you’re done.
A selection of Java® Demonstrations to illustrate key concepts.
A full set of Exams with Solutions, including review material to help you prepare.

Course related:: AMA1120 Basic Mathematics II
Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Algebras Linear
Resource Type:: Courseware

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What is Autism? Do you know the signs?

Autism is a spectrum disorder which includes a large range of symptoms and behaviors. This video is part for Behavior Frontiers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Training Program with an Autism Specialization. Available via web based training program or at seminars across the country.

Course related:: RS3320 Clinical Sciences in Developmental Dysfunction
Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Autism
Resource Type:: Video

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The Technology of Storytelling

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

Subjects:: Technology, Communication, and Storytelling
Keywords:: Social media Digital storytelling
Resource Type:: Video

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The Surprising Math of Cities And Corporations

Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Cities towns -- Growth -- Econometric models Sustainable urban development
Resource Type:: Video

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The Beautiful Math Behind The World's Ugliest Music

Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Costas Array. In this surprisingly entertaining talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty ... and its opposite.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Repetition in music Mathematics Composition (Music)
Resource Type:: Video

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How I Became a Scientist: From English Literature Major to Science

How does an English literature major ultimately end up as a cancer biologist? Varmus tells us of his circuitous path to becoming a scientist to illustrate the many routes that one can follow to a career in science.

Keywords:: Physical sciences -- Vocational guidance Biologists -- Vocational guidance
Resource Type:: Video

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How Healthy Living Nearly Killed Me

For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Health behavior Noise pollution Joy
Resource Type:: Video

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Crowdsource Your Health

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords:: Medical care Medical technology
Resource Type:: Video

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Healthier Men, One Moustache at A Time

Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every November -- began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it's a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Health promotion Fund raising Prostate -- Cancer
Resource Type:: Video

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The Single Biggest Health Threat Women Face

Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Heart -- Diseases -- Research Heart diseases in women
Resource Type:: Video

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