The Story of 1 |  | Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Terry Jones, Marcus du Sautoy, Ahmed Boulane, Fred Challa
Studio: PBS (Direct)
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 13281
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PBSDSONE601D
UPC: 841887007092
EAN: 0841887007092
ASIN: B000EOTENQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: May 21, 2006
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Studio: Pbs Release Date: 05/06/2009 Run time: 60 minutes
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 Nice movie about arithmetic August 25, 2009
Math teacher in USA
Very interesting movie about the story of Arithmetic...but it lacks information about the Mayan number system, older than the Hindu and who "discovered" zero too!
Story of 1 April 12, 2009
Anthony
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent, enjoyable story of ONE.
The only item that disappointed me was that it is not close captioned, which is important to me and is somewhat unfathomable to me why and educational product would not be. So for content I rate it as a 5, but because of not captioning, I rate it as a 3.
 Excellent Teaching Tool March 25, 2009
Jonathan Perry
I use this in my classroom to teach about how counting evolved. Very well-done movie. Very funny. I like it more than my students. But they learn from it.
An attempt to package the history of numbers, 1 being in the center accompanied by 0. February 23, 2009
Suat Guler (Izmir, TURKEY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I came across with this DVD when I was searching resources for more spiritual information. The title seemed interesting as the "1" ment to me the single source of all visdom. But when I read the reviews, I realized that it was really about the story of the "1" we know as a number. No second meaning. But still I ordered the dvd as I am also highly interested in science history. After watching the dvd, my first thoughts are as follows:
1. Producers wanted give information in an entertaining way. But to my taste, the "entertaining" part was pushed a bit too much.
2. The language of the dvd is quite simple and easy to follow word by word but if you want to grasp the overall meaning, it's difficult to grasp. i.e. too many things are said and you can hear them but in the end, you find difficult to summarize what you have learned.
3. In the dvd, when they mentioned about "1" in fact, I think they ment "unit". Which I believe different than each other. Maybe this is the source of confusion I wanted to explain in item 2 of my review.
4. In the dvd, there is an attempt to track the history of numbers from different parts of the world, rather than sticking to western resources only. And I appreciate that. But given that the dvd is only 60 min long, it's inevitable that other possible resources of "1" are just touched, rather than analysed.
5. The animations in the dvd are not contributing to better understanding of the subject, but rather diluting the seriousness of the study.
As a result, it's an entertaining dvd in which you can find some interesting pieces of information to contribute to your general knowledge. A bit of a luxury I would say.
The Story of 1 January 1, 2009
Alan J. Tieman (Fairfield, Maine USA)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a middle school teacher, I purchased this DVD with the intentions of showing it to supplement my lessons during what I call "Math Week".
Overall I believe that the film has merits in that it has comical overtones, is generally fast paced, and offers interesting math history. Educators should be forewarned that one early scene displays a topless Aborigine.
I did find it curious that the ancient Hebrew Civilization and their use of numbers is totally ignored. For example In Hebrew, there is a correlation between the symbols for numbers and the ones for letters. To begin with, the first letter, Aleph, has the value 1. The next letter, Bet, has the value 2, and so on up to Yud=10. After that, each letter is an increment of ten, so that Kaf=20 and so on, until Qof (usually pronounced like "cough")=100. The last three letters increase in value by 100, so Resh = 200, Shin = 300, and Tav = 400.
To ignore this important historical is in my opinion very bias. I recommend a thorough reading of Numbers; written by Moses nearly 3400 years ago.
I still am happy with my acquisition as it is difficult to find compelling math visuals. I also recommend some of the Charles and Ray Eames films.
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