{"id":7805,"date":"2013-01-25T13:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T05:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T04:12:24","slug":"friday-math-movie-donald-in-mathmagic-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-donald-in-mathmagic-land-7805","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Donald in Mathmagic Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a 1959 classic from Walt Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Duck learns how math arose out of music (the Pythagoreans), art and architecture (the Greeks), nature (the Golden Ratio gets a good plug), games (vectors, angles) and of course, science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>As the commentator says when taking conic sections:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"No matter how you slice it, you always get mathematics.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And a bit later:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"These are the doors to the future. And the key to the doors is mathematics.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the 1950s and 1960s, science had a higher profile than it does today. I can't imagine too many animation houses producing such a video today.<\/p>\n<p>So here is Donald in Mathmagic Land (27 min).<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<p>YouTube took down this video because it violated copyright. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-donald-in-mathmagic-land-7805#comments\" id=\"comms\">5 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-donald-in-mathmagic-land-7805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/01\/donald-mathmagic-land2.jpg\" alt=\"Donald in Mathmagic Land\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a classic late-1950s cartoon where Donald learns where math comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}