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Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk

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Once upon a time, not long ago, the math world fell in love ... with a chalk. But not just any chalk! This was Hagoromo: a Japanese brand so smooth, so perfect that some wondered if it was made from the tears of angels. Pencils down, please, as we tell th
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Mathematicians know how to turn a sphere inside out.

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This is a sphere turning inside out.
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AI can't beat mathematicians - with Junaid Mubeen

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What is distinctly human about breaking the rules? And why does that matter for creative thinking, mathematics, and AI?Watch Junaid's full talk here: https://youtu.be/i2trJEIFIvY Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeJunaid is a m
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How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi

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For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes to those today have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.
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How big is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-big-is-infinity Using the fundamentals of set theory, explore the mind-bending concept of the "infinity of infinities" -- and how it led mathematicians to conclude that math itself contains unanswerable ques
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The ‘Ham Sandwich Theorem’ Will Change How You See the Universe… Seriously

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Ham sandwiches are delicious, but they’re also pretty useful when it comes to understanding the universe. Is Anything Truly Random? - https://youtu.be/tClZGWlRLoE Read More: The Ham Sandwich Theorem Is a Delicious and Puzzling Mathematical Principle https
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Topology, Geometry And Life In Three Dimensions

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If you imagine a three dimensional maze from which there is no escape, how can you map it? Is there a way to describe what all possible mazes look like, and how do mathematicians set about investigating them? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://b
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The ancient 'computer' that simply shouldn't exist - BBC REEL

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A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history. The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism has captured the imagination of archaeologists, mathema
"The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing" 1978 Award-winning computer animation

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"The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing" 1978 Award-winning computer animation. Fantastic tutorial of how to visualize hypercubes.I cleaned up the audio. Original was BETAMAX. Copied from web."The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing"by Thomas Banchoff and
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White House Science Fair Experiment With Science Bob

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On April 13th, the White House is hosting the 6th White House Science Fair and I'll be there! This year's White House Science Fair will highlight the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and innov
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Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons? - Zack Patterson And Andy Peterson

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-honeybees-love-hexagons-zack-patterson-and-andy-peterson Honeybees are some of nature's finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate angles and comprehend the roundness of the earth, these smart ins
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The Mathematical Secrets Of Pascal’s Triangle - Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mathematical-secrets-of-pascal-s-triangle-wajdi-mohamed-ratemi Pascal’s triangle, which at first may just look like a neatly arranged stack of numbers, is actually a mathematical treasure trove. But what abo
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The Mandelbrot Set - The only video you need to see!

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This video has been edited together from several documentaries to describe the Mandelbrot set in a simple, introduction/beginner fashion! What is the Mandelbrot set? An incredible mathematical formula explaining fractals and geometry! Several mathematicia
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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

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Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki one of the most influential mathematicians of all time who never actually existed.--When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathem
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A Pattern in Prime Numbers ?

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An interesting phenomenon I stumbled upon recently. Hope you find it as fascinating as me. If there are any mathematicians in the audience who can explain this, (in a simple way) feel free to comment. (Oh, and yes, I returned the voice to Professor Hawkin
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Weve Got Answers to Five Whys

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Who? What? When? Where? Why? Thats a lot of questions all at once. Lets stick with why for this reel. Well going to tell you everything from why mathematicians are obsessed with a certain kind of chalk to why a Japanese company is making baseball bats out
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THAT IS HOW YOU CAN CONFUSE YOUR MATH TEACHER AT SCHOOL

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Learn how to draw prospective without a ruler, measure angles and figure out how many days there are in any given month with your hand! These and many others mind-blowing Math tricks are in this video! There are some GREAT tricks for young mathematicians!
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UNCRACKABLE? The Collatz Conjecture - Numberphile

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Professor David Eisenbud on the infamous Collatz Conjecture, a simple problem that mathematicians may not be "ready" to crack. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/O2_h3z1YgEU Prof Eisenbud's
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The Lollipop Hypothesis

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http://www.sciencefriday.com t's not just generations of children who have pondered how many licks it takes to reach the center of a lollipop. Mathematicians studying fluid dynamics at NYU's Applied Mathematics Lab designed experiments to watch how lollip
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2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math

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Mathematicians made major progress in 2022, solving a centuries-old geometry question called the interpolation problem, proving the best way to minimize the surface area of clusters of three, four and five bubbles, and proving a sweeping statement about h
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Mathematics: Beauty vs Utility - Numberphile

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Should mathematics be done for its pure beauty or should it have practical uses? And why are many mathematicians so bad at outreach? Discussion with famous French mathematician, Cédric Villani. More Villani videos: http://bit.ly/Villani_Videos Numberphile
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The World's Best Mathematician - Numberphile

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(*) Among current mathematicians, many people regard Professor Tao as the world's finest... Opinions on such things vary, of course. Professor Tao kindly fielded some of our questions, including many submitted by Numberphile viewers. EXTRA FOOTAGE: https:
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Magic Square Party Trick - Numberphile

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Matt Parker shows off his Magic Square party trick (unlike magicians, mathematicians often reveal their secrets). More Magic Square videos: http://bit.ly/MagicSquareVideos Rubik's Cube videos: http://bit.ly/rubiksvids More Matt on Numberphile: http://bit.
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The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile

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A prime number "gift" from a mathematicians leaving his college. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Featuring Tadashi Tokieda. More Tadashi: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids Professor McKee explains: "Most of the digits of p were fixed so that: (i
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Champions of Illusion Susana Martinez-Conde

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You can watch all our videos at https://scienceandnonduality.com Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality. Our perception of the outside world is generated indirectly by brain mechanisms, so all visual perce
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Surface Area to Volume Ratios - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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The mathematicians of Lilliput assumed that Gulliver would need 1728 times as much food as an individual Lilliput. Philip Morrison shows why this is not true, using surface area to volume ratios. Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectu
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Embedding A Torus (John Nash) - Numberphile

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This videos features James Grime with a little bit of Edward Crane. Ed's full discussion of Nash and embedding: https://youtu.be/5xQ4ePN79-M Nash shared both the Nobel and Abel Prizes. Full details. Nobel: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-s
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Christmas Lectures 2019: How Can We All Win? - Hannah Fry

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In the third and final lecture of the 2019 Christmas Lectures, Hannah Fry looks at why maths can fail and asks what the limits of maths are. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&u
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Christmas Lectures 2019: How to Bend the Rules - Hannah Fry

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In the second lecture of the 2019 Christmas Lectures, Hannah Fry shows how data-gobbling algorithms have taken over our lives and now control almost everything we do without us even realising. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-l
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Christmas Lectures 2019: How to Get Lucky - Hannah Fry

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In the first lecture of the 2019 Christmas Lectures, Hannah Fry explores how mathematical thinking and probability can allow us to understand and predict complex systems - even helping us to make our own luck.Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb
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30 SCHOOL HACKS YOU CAN'T MISS

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HOW TO MAKE SCHOOL MORE FUN This time I'll show you how to make awesome no-mess pencil sharpener, Tic tac scotch cutter and so many helpful hacks! Learn how to draw prospective without a ruler, measure angles and figure out how many days there are in any
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The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi

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For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 314 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium
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Hear the Otherworldly Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice | National Geographic

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This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. “Wild ice skating,” or “Nordic skating,” is both an art and a science. A skater seeks out the t
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Can you solve the Mondrian squares riddle? - Gordon Hamilton

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s abstract, rectangular paintings inspired mathematicians to create a two-fold challenge. Can you solve the puzzle and get to the lowest score possible? Gordon
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28 SUMMER SCHOOL AND STATIONERY HACKS

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FUN SCHOOL HACKS This one is for those poor kids who have to attend summer schools! Cheer up folks, I've got plenty of hacks to make school time much more bearable. Check it out! Learn how to draw prospective without a ruler, measure angles and figure out
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The Pizza Theorem

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Watch my newest video, "The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)": https://youtu.be/PpvboBJEozMGet Vsauce's favorite science and math toys delivered to your door!https://www.curiositybox.com/National Pizza Day is Saturday, February 9!*** LINKS ***T
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Mathematician Explains Infinity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

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While the concept of infinity may seem mysterious, mathematicians have developed processes to reason the strange properties of infinity. Mathematician Emily Riehl has been challenged to explain infinity to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college st
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A Problem You'll Never Solve

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Watch my newest video, "The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)": https://youtu.be/PpvboBJEozMCuriosity Box: https://www.curiositybox.comMrBeasts $1,000,000 Dilemma: https://youtu.be/NkYCWqzBc7MNewcombs Paradox has confounded philosophers, mathema
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3-D Technology Offers Clues to How Egypt’s Pyramids Were Built

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Archeologist Yukinori Kawae is leading an interdisciplinary approach to studying the Egyptian pyramids by combining computer science, 3-D data, and the latest technology to help decode how and why the pyramids were built. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeo
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History's "worst" nun - Theresa A. Yugar

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Get to know the life of Mexican nun, poet and scholar, Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, who was censored by the Church for her critical writings. --Juana Ramrez de Asbaje sat before a panel of prestigious theologians, jurists, and mathematicians. They had been i
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25 LIFE-SAVING STUDY HACKS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED

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LIFE-SAVING STUDY HACKS Learn how to draw prospective without a ruler, measure angles and figure out how many days there are in any given month with your hand! These and many others mind-blowing Math tricks are in this video! There are some GREAT tricks f
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30 BACK TO SCHOOL STATIONERY HACKS

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BACK TO SCHOOL Learn how to draw prospective without a ruler, measure angles and figure out how many days there are in any given month with your hand! These and many others mind-blowing Math tricks are in this video! There are some GREAT tricks for young
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Apollo 11's Legacy in Pop Culture | The Moon Landing in TV and Movies

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When President Kennedy challenged NASA to put a man on the moon before 1970, it took some of the worlds brightest engineers, mathematicians, and human computers to meet the deadline. The challenge sparked not only their imaginations, but so many around th
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Is This New Super Carbon Better Than Graphene?

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Scientists have been searching for schwarzites for decades, here’s how their discovery could change our world. How Supercapacitors Could Make Batteries a Thing of the Past - https://youtu.be/GeSvErqdmIM Read More: Generating carbon schwarzites via zeolite
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The problem with the theory of everything | Janna Levin

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The hunt for the theory of everything continues but we wont find it without understanding quantum gravity first.This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the@JohnTempletonFoundati
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DNews Invades The White House Science Fair

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Trace travels to Washington DC for the Annual White House Science Fair. Watch young scientists showcase their projects to solve world problems. Whiz Kid Inventors Invade The White House - http://bit.ly/22YzJS3 Obama On Thought-Controlled Tech - http://bit
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Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Gravity... Here's Why

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The universe is expanding, and fast. And this new theory could explain why. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com The universe is expanding, and that
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The Easiest Problem Everyone Gets Wrong

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Watch my newest video, "Could a Toothpaste Sandwich Brush Your Teeth?": https://youtu.be/OdeiWhETqQYWe know how difficult the Monty Hall Problem is for so many people even after theyre shown all the math behind the best possible strategy. Its basic probab
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Can You Solve The Diluted Wine Puzzle?

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A servant has a method to steal wine. He removes 3 cups from a barrel of wine and replaces it with 3 cups of water. The next day he wants more wine, so he does the same thing: he removes 3 cups from the same barrel (now with diluted wine) and replaces it
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How To Count Past Infinity

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Vote for Vsauce in the WEBBYS! https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/video-channels-and-networks/science-education Sources and links to learn more below! I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics a
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There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math

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Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium ge
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The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math

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Do odd perfect numbers exist? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where

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