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  • 01:50 Popular A mathematician explains infinity

    A mathematician explains infinity

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    Infinity is an elusive concept that can often be difficult to comprehend. In order to better define what infinity actually is, we brought in Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician and the author of "Beyond Infinity." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai

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  • 02:29 Katherine Johnson: Trailblazing NASA Mathematician

    Katherine Johnson: Trailblazing NASA Mathematician

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    At a time when American space exploration was dominated by men, mathematician Katherine Johnson broke through gender and racial barriers to help change our understanding of the cosmos forever.Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, history video

  • 06:14 How a mathematician dissects a coincidence

    How a mathematician dissects a coincidence

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    Can you unknot a twist of fate with logic? Vox's Phil Edwards asked mathematician Joseph Mazur about his book, Fluke, and one of its most incredible stories. Find a link to the book and more information here: http://www.vox.com/2016/10/31/13457236/mathema

  • 05:13 The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

    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

  • 23:08 Popular A Rare Interview With The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons | TED Talks

    A Rare Interview With The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons | TED Talks

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    Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED’s Ch

  • 24:44 Mathematician Explains Infinity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

    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

  • 18:39 Popular Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile

    Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile

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    Full length version of this interview (one hour): https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0 More about The Simons Foundation: http://bit.ly/SimonsFoundation James Harris Simons has been described as "the world's smartest billionaire", amassing a fortune through the cl

  • 10:57 The World's Best Mathematician - Numberphile

    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:

  • 58:25 Birth Of A Theorem - With Cédric Villani

    Birth Of A Theorem - With Cédric Villani

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    Where does a mathematician’s inspiration come from? Fields Medal winner Cédric Villani takes us on a fantastical adventure through the beautiful, mysterious world of mathematics. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe What goes on

  • 04:29 Mathematical Present Wrapping

    Mathematical Present Wrapping

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    Mathematician Katie Steckles takes you through some mathematically satisfying ways to wrap presents using paper.

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  • 02:34 Using Math to Skate On Thin Ice

    Using Math to Skate On Thin Ice

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    People get nervous when they see Mrten Ajne ice skating. He intentionally skates on extremely thin ice. Ajne has pursued this dangerous hobby for 40 years and has skated on more than 1,800 bodies of water from Norway to North America. He uses his knowledg

  • 59:52 Popular The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash - with Cédric Villani

    The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash - with Cédric Villani

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    Fields medal winner Cédric Villani takes us through the very special world of mathematical creation of John Nash, who founded several new chapters of game theory and geometric analysis in just a few revolutionary contributions that seemed to come from now

  • 12:15 The Greatest Machine That Never Was - John Graham-Cumming

    The Greatest Machine That Never Was - John Graham-Cumming

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    Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational ab

  • 02:18 DIY | Burrito Math | Cartoon Network

    DIY | Burrito Math | Cartoon Network

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    Jack dreams of making the mathematically perfect burrito but when he tries to do it the easy way, using his sassy robo pal Mitchell, everything gets really gross. Earn the Mathematician patch from DIY.org! https://diy.org/skills/mathematician From DIY.org

  • 09:44 Alternate Realities from Relativity | Jason Padgett | TEDxTacoma

    Alternate Realities from Relativity | Jason Padgett | TEDxTacoma

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    Jason Padgett explains relativity, and uses the Doppler Effect to demonstrate how every potential can be any reality. Jason is an aspiring number theorist and mathematician with acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia. His memoir, Struck By Genius, is th

  • 04:50 WWIIs Forgotten LGBTQ+ Hero | WHAT THE PAST?

    WWIIs Forgotten LGBTQ+ Hero | WHAT THE PAST?

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    Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who famously helped break German secret codes during World War 2. He was also a gay man in a time and place where governments still discriminated heavily against gay people... even people who saved their country f

  • 02:14 Visualizing the 600-Cell

    Visualizing the 600-Cell

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    Mathematician/geometer Dugan Hammock of Quantum Gravity Research shows us a visualization of the 4-dimensional 600-Cell projected to 3D object (further projected, technically, to 2D on his computer screen.) The 600-Cell is a 4-dimensional shape made of 60

  • 04:35 Popular Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu

    Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu

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    View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-counterfeit-coin-riddle-jennifer-lu You’re the realm’s greatest mathematician, but ever since you criticized the Emperor’s tax laws, you’ve been locked in the dungeon. Luckily for you, one of t

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  • Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches

    Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches

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    The Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda demonstrates one of his physics toys: the curious higher and lower notes you hear when tapping a coffee mug with a spoon. Read the full Q&A here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-p

  • 02:07 Popular Bertrand Russell's Advice for Future Generations

    Bertrand Russell's Advice for Future Generations

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    Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, he was a prominent anti-war activist and a Nobel laureate. Advice from Bertrand

  • 01:38 Popular Cartesian Diver - Sick Science! #138

    Cartesian Diver - Sick Science! #138

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    Read the full experiment here http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/eye-dropper-cartesian-diverThis experiment is named after Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a French scientist and mathematician. It's a classic science experiment using an eye-dropper

  • 04:39 Popular How The Königsberg Bridge Problem Changed Mathematics - Dan Van Der Vieren

    How The Königsberg Bridge Problem Changed Mathematics - Dan Van Der Vieren

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    View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-konigsberg-bridge-problem-changed-mathematics-dan-van-der-vieren You’d have a hard time finding the medieval city Königsberg on any modern maps, but one particular quirk in its geography has made it one

  • 00:58 The Man Who Invented Zero

    The Man Who Invented Zero

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    It's taken thousands of years for humans to decide what zero is, and also what zero isn't. It's a strange concept to think about what nothing really means in relation to other numbers, but giving zero meaning beyond a simple placeholder was one of the mos

  • 06:00 Popular The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

    The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

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    View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-infinite-hotel-paradox-jeff-dekofsky The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. Wha

  • 03:09 Popular Why algorithms are called algorithms | BBC Ideas

    Why algorithms are called algorithms | BBC Ideas

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    Why are algorithms called algorithms? It's thanks to Persian mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi who was born way back in around AD780.Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2F6ipavThis video was made by Dayglow Media & Pencil & Pepper. --------------Do yo

  • 10:03 Four has Four Letters

    Four has Four Letters

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    Four is the only number in the English language which as as many letters as its value. Leave your findings below and please do comment (constructively!) on the findings of others. Here is the python code I used to track which binary sequences ended in 13

  • Whats the opposite of infinity? | Elevator Pitch

    Whats the opposite of infinity? | Elevator Pitch

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    What is infinity? Whats the opposite of infinity? Mathematician Dr Sophie Calabretto tries to explain it to me in 3 minutes. I think I get it... do you?Dr Sophie Calabretto is a fluid mechanist and academic in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  • 03:43 The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

    The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

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    Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking. Thanks to the Winnetka Historical Society! More from them: https://www.winnetkahistory.org/

  • 04:26 Popular Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World’s First Computer Nerd?

    Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World’s First Computer Nerd?

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    This 19th-century female mathematician created the first computer program, but do you know who she is? Who is Ada Lovelace? Who Is Koko The Gorilla & Is She Really That Smart? - http://bit.ly/1U1hDbu Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/

  • 22:41 Calculating the optimal sphere packing density: with oranges

    Calculating the optimal sphere packing density: with oranges

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    Check out the corresponding video I made with Steve Mould for his channel. https://youtu.be/O3RsDIWB7s0 Thomas Hales’s proof of the Kepler Conjecture. http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v162-n3-p01.pdf The Kepler Conjecture on wiki

  • 17:38 Recreating Asteroids with Lasers

    Recreating Asteroids with Lasers

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    Thanks to Seb Lee-Delisle for recreating the Asteroids vector graphics with his massive laser. Here’s his site: http://seb.ly/ Of course he’s on Github, where you can find out more about controlling lasers with computers: https://github.com/sebleedelisle/

  • 10:06 Matt & Hugh: the mystery of two balls in a can

    Matt & Hugh: the mystery of two balls in a can

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    Dr Hugh Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. http://www.hughhunt.co.uk/ Watch Hugh and I calculate how fast a motorbike can go on a wall of death. https://youtu.be/b23i3NhFLDc CORRECTIONS

  • 06:11 The Brick Balancing Challenge

    The Brick Balancing Challenge

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    How far can you make a tower lean? Bricks optional. Lower-mass cuboids should work just as well. Previous brick video: The Brick Double-Domino Effect Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkBctqyKic Try to keep the comments spoiler free! But I do not

  • 05:40 How to find a square root

    How to find a square root

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    Here is the original π video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhlqCJjbEa0 Watch the long version of the extra working out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YvD7dqsy8 My calculation gave the square root of 10,005 to be 100.02499687578103 Compared to

  • 04:51 Popular Three Gears Are Possible - Numberphile

    Three Gears Are Possible - Numberphile

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    Henry Segerman (mathematician and 3D printing guru) discusses how to make three gears work together. Skew dice: https://youtu.be/uAnCL3vhVIs Prime Numbers Playlist: http://bit.ly/primevids Prime Machine: https://youtu.be/8UqCyepX3AI You can buy the gears

  • 05:51 Postcards from backstage: Rob and the Anti-Monty-Hall Problem

    Postcards from backstage: Rob and the Anti-Monty-Hall Problem

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    Katie’s postcard is here: https://youtu.be/dFvzUNMU1Lo Hugh’s postcard over here: https://youtu.be/b23i3NhFLDc More about Maths Inspiration shows for sixth formers: http://www.mathsinspiration.com/ We have 2017 shows in Manchester, Winchester, London, Bir

  • 54:31 What's the Point of Maths? - with Nira Chamberlain

    What's the Point of Maths? - with Nira Chamberlain

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    All around the world children, and even some adults, ask the question: What is the point of mathematics?. The field of mathematical modelling not only helps answer this question, it can help quench the human thirst for knowledge.Watch the Q&A: https://you

  • 04:00 The Brick Double-Domino Effect Explained

    The Brick Double-Domino Effect Explained

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    If you use bricks as dominoes: you get a second wave going in the opposite direction. Watch the original brick domino video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTWiZ7CYoI I think that is the original upload. If anyone finds a better one, please do let

  • 07:07 Popular How fast is a Fidget Spinner?

    How fast is a Fidget Spinner?

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    Use some mathematics to work out how fast a Fidget Spinner spins. In fidgets/second. Maths and science teachers: please do torment your students with this experiment. All they need is a Fidget Spinner and a phone; the two things they refuse to be without.

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  • 03:19 How a Suzanne Vega Song Helped Create the MP3

    How a Suzanne Vega Song Helped Create the MP3

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    Karlheinz Brandenburg has listened to Suzanne Vegas Toms Diner thousands of times and never tires of it. In fact, the song holds a special place in his heart because it was instrumental in the creation of the MP3. The German engineer and mathematician is

  • 07:00 Measuring the Berlin TV Tower with a ruler

    Measuring the Berlin TV Tower with a ruler

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    Watch me try to calculate how tall the Berlin TV Tower is using a ruler! Berlin also being a great reminder that dividing walls are a terrible idea. Info about the Berlin Fernsehturm TV Tower: https://www.berlin.de/en/attractions-and-sights/3560707-310405

  • 09:11 Mathematics: Beauty vs Utility - Numberphile

    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

  • 14:27 Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

    Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

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    I look at the historical quirks which gave us TV at 29.97 frames per second. In North America at least. It's a comfortable 25 fps in Europe. More on that thing I mentioned at the end of the video here: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Here is the sphe

  • 32:44 Popular The Power of Mathematical Visualization | The Great Courses

    The Power of Mathematical Visualization | The Great Courses

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    https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/show/the_power_of_mathematical_visualization?utm_source=US_SocialMedia&utm_medium=SocialMediaEditorialYoutube&utm_campaign=138569 The Power of Mathematical Visualization teaches you these vital problem-solving skills in

  • 14:01 Popular How to build a Hexastix in 72 easy steps

    How to build a Hexastix in 72 easy steps

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    I was bored in a hotel room, so I went and bought 72 pencils. You can buy the same pencils on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Staples-Yellow-Pencils-Dozen/dp/B00BQ3ALD6?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-20 Download the Stand-up Maths theme! https://standu

  • 10:22 Popular Why do whole oranges float, but peeled oranges sink?

    Why do whole oranges float, but peeled oranges sink?

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    Go check out the courses on Brilliant! https://brilliant.org/standupmaths Be one of the first n people (for n = 200) to sign-up for a free Brilliant account and get 20% off if you upgrade to paid membership. Here is the original QI tweet: "A whole orange

  • 18:19 Popular How to make an edge-coloured origami dodecahedron

    How to make an edge-coloured origami dodecahedron

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    Check out Skillshare: http://skl.sh/standupmaths Using the code STANDUPMATHS you can get two months of the premium version for free (which is normally from $8 USD per month). Go straight to the origami star lesson: http://skl.sh/origami-class Download my

  • 12:17 Popular How to detect bank fraud with maths

    How to detect bank fraud with maths

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    I chat to Daniel from the financial crime and security team at Monzo to talk about how they used maths to detect a data breach at Ticketmaster which exposed people to bank fraud. Here is their post about what happened: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/28/ti

  • 1:01:40 Popular Four Dimensional Maths: Things To See And Hear In The Fourth Dimension With Matt Parker

    Four Dimensional Maths: Things To See And Hear In The Fourth Dimension With Matt Parker

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    Matt Parker, comedian and mathematician, shows how four-dimensional shapes appear a 3D world in this hands-on talk, featuring what is possibly the world's nerdiest knitted hat! Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Discover how t

  • 07:53 How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever

    How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever

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    To learn more about Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/BeSmart/ and sign up for free. First 200 people will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ You can be a human computer too. Our cheat sheet: http://bit.l

  • 06:56 AI can't beat mathematicians - with Junaid Mubeen

    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

  • 24:00 Popular Generating π from 1,000 random numbers

    Generating π from 1,000 random numbers

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    Watch me calculate pi by rolling 1,000 random numbers on two d120 dice. All in the name of celebrating Pi Day 2017. You can watch all 500 rolls of the dice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESU4KdRLzu0 Here are some proofs that the probability of two rando

  • 14:53 How thick is a three-sided coin?

    How thick is a three-sided coin?

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    Go check out the puzzles over on Brilliant! https://brilliant.org/standupmaths Use the URL above to help support this video and get 20% off the paid premium versions. Once you’ve done that: help us calculate the thickness of a three-sided coin! The bonus

  • 03:22 The Rug Puzzle: how many triangles?

    The Rug Puzzle: how many triangles?

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    This video sponsored by ME. I mean: MATHS GEAR. Buy my book. https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/signed-paperback-things-to-make-and-do-in-the-fourth-dimension My original tweet that started the puzzle! https://twitter.com/standupmaths/stat

  • 14:27 "Will Your iPhone Ever Have Consciousness?" with Marcus du Sautoy | WIRED Live

    "Will Your iPhone Ever Have Consciousness?" with Marcus du Sautoy | WIRED Live

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    How can we tell whether an animal is conscious? How about an iPhone? University of Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals the complex process of how we assess consciousness and the challenges artificial intelligence may soon pose. This talk was rec

  • 15:21 Why pi^pi^pi^pi could be an integer (for all we know!).

    Why pi^pi^pi^pi could be an integer (for all we know!).

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    Check out the Jane Street programs if you're considering a mathematics/finance/programming job: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/our-programs/ Here is Tim Gowers's reply to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/134621215158170

  • 06:59 Can animals predict the future? Meet Barry the Psychic Labrador!

    Can animals predict the future? Meet Barry the Psychic Labrador!

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    Barry the Psychic Labrador has predicted an England win: https://psychic-pets.com/pets/232 Lilo the Psychic Basset Hound has predicted a Sweden win: https://psychic-pets.com/pets/1246 This video was uploaded before the World Cup quarter-final: England vs

  • 21:55 Synchronising Metronomes in a Spreadsheet

    Synchronising Metronomes in a Spreadsheet

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    The Ri Lectures are on BBC4 and iPlayer now:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqqThey'll be on the Ri channel a month later:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitutionThanks to Jane Street, pateron supports and all viewers! Here's to another year

  • 10:36 How to keep an open secret with mathematics.

    How to keep an open secret with mathematics.

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    This video is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Go to https://expressvpn.com/standupmaths and find out how you can get 3 months free.Shamir's Secret Sharing on wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_SharingI made the animated parabola in GeoGebr

  • 05:00 What BMI doesn't tell you about your health

    What BMI doesn't tell you about your health

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    The way we define obesity is flawed. Read more about Body Mass Index's flaws on Vox.com: http://bit.ly/2nxeQ2U The body mass index, better known as BMI, is a measure of obesity that has been in use for over 200 years. It was a formula created by Belgian m

  • 19:41 The Actual Mathematics of Popping Champagne Corks

    The Actual Mathematics of Popping Champagne Corks

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    Thanks to Helen Czerski for making the video with me! https://www.helenczerski.net/ Helen is physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. You should check out her book Storm in a Teacup

  • 13:59 MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

    MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

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    See more data and check out what we changed on the second day (which caused MENACE to learn a different strategy) in the second video: https://youtu.be/KcmjOtkULi4 Check out Matt Scroggs’s original blog post about MENACE and in the amazing Chalkiest magaz

  • 16:28 Inside an Antimatter Factory

    Inside an Antimatter Factory

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    Check out Lucie’s tour of CERN on the Cosmic Shambles channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqMT2c35Wrg If you are a physics kind of person and want to work or do a placement at CERN, go to: http://cern.ch/jobs If you ask nicely anyone can visit CERN.

  • 03:40 Popular This Famous Tongue Twister Is Actually About Dinosaurs

    This Famous Tongue Twister Is Actually About Dinosaurs

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    "She sells seashells by the seashore" isn't the whole story. This Boring Taxonomical Change Is Making Dinosaur Nerds Go Crazy - https://youtu.be/GM7SOweWAHE Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Who Discovered the First

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  • 05:36 10 Women Who Changed The World Through Science

    10 Women Who Changed The World Through Science

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    In honor of Women's History Month, we'll celebrate ten women who have helped save the world with science.Ada Lovelace was a self-taught Victorian English mathematician who is often regarded as the "world's first computer programmer". Some even say she was

  • 07:35 Calculator Number Trick: rectangle patterns

    Calculator Number Trick: rectangle patterns

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    Here is the original Fermat's Library tweet.https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/1052544515632959488If you want 100% renewable energy: check out Bulb!https://bulb.co.uk/refer/mattp5449We make Think Maths teaching resources to go with Stand-up Maths v

  • 16:55 Popular Calculating π by hand: the Chudnovsky algorithm

    Calculating π by hand: the Chudnovsky algorithm

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    For Pi Day 2018 I calculated π by hand using the Chudnovsky algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm k = 0 42698672/13591409 = 3.141592|751... k = 0 and k = 1 42698670.666333435968/13591408.9999997446 = 3.14159265358979|619... Watch m

  • 02:04 Amazing 10-Year-Old Plays Island Song On Drums | Adventure Time | Cartoon Network

    Amazing 10-Year-Old Plays Island Song On Drums | Adventure Time | Cartoon Network

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    We stan a queen who walks to the beat of her own drum. 10-year-old Nandi Bushell rocking out to Adventure Time Island Song!Check out her music:Nandi_Bushell - TwitterNandi_Bushell - InstagramNandiBushell - FacebookNandi Bushell - Youtube Nandi started pla

  • 04:14 Popular Can One Mathematical Model Explain All Patterns In Nature?

    Can One Mathematical Model Explain All Patterns In Nature?

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    All patterns in nature might be describable using this mathematical theory. How did Alan Turing influence how we see the natural world? Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World's First Computer Nerd? - http://bit.ly/290mnkb Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here -

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  • 10:24 Alphamagic vs Letterwise Magic Squares

    Alphamagic vs Letterwise Magic Squares

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    Behold! Another slightly disappointing magic square. Free tickets for my patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-tickets-to-9603456 Pre-Order the DVD/download: https://shop.festivalofthespokennerd.com/collections/frontpage/products/58b6b63a

  • 14:26 Popular New Rubik's Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds (interview and breakdown)

    New Rubik's Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds (interview and breakdown)

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    New Rubik’s Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds. I have a chat with Mats Valk about his record-breaking solve. Plus a break-down of how he actually did it. UPDATE: The Valk 3 cube is back in stock on Maths Gear after the original stock sold-out within an hour

  • 04:06 How Do Animals Find Their Way Home Without GPS?

    How Do Animals Find Their Way Home Without GPS?

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    Animals travel hundreds of kilometers without GPS, but how? Understanding the earth's magnetic field might be the ultimate travel tip. How GPS Works - http://bit.ly/1UyXfmp Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: How dogs

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  • 09:44 The 50/50 Problem You Won't Believe

    The 50/50 Problem You Won't Believe

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