NumberphileFeaturing Tony Feng from UC Berkeley. See our other new video today about -1/12 with Tony Padilla at youtu.be/beakj767uG4 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
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Note: As explained by Brady at the end of this video, Tony Feng did not know about our previous -1/12 videos when we recorded this - we decided to go ahead so you could compare his take with other ones! :)
The Return of -1/12 - NumberphileNumberphile2024-02-15 | Featuring Tony Feng from UC Berkeley. See our other new video today about -1/12 with Tony Padilla at youtu.be/beakj767uG4 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Tony Feng's website: https://math.berkeley.edu/~fengt/
Note: As explained by Brady at the end of this video, Tony Feng did not know about our previous -1/12 videos when we recorded this - we decided to go ahead so you could compare his take with other ones! :)
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How mathematics and probability cracked the puzzle of how many tanks were being produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.
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Tom Crawford is based at University of Oxford as Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at St Edmund Hall and Public Engagement Lead at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.
POST-PUBLICATION NOTE: Have seen a number of people saying the 4 case should be 1,114,111 rather than 983,038 - I'm not qualified to comment but you can read some discussion and coding here: https://redd.it/1c6z1t4
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The image of Everton FC winning the league thousands of years in the future is AI generated and not a real photo from the future.Goliath & Leviathan Numbers - NumberphileNumberphile2024-04-07 | Featuring Tony Padilla. See all three videos in this Apocalyptic Trilogy - bit.ly/ApocalypticTrilogy More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
The picture of demon legions were AI generated and are not real demons.Apocalyptic Numbers - NumberphileNumberphile2024-04-06 | Featuring Tony Padilla. See all three videos in this Apocalyptic Trilogy - bit.ly/ApocalypticTrilogy More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
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* A set theorist's clarification from Asaf commenting on Brady's simplified animations... "By {Primes} we mean the set {2,3,5,7,11,13,...} of prime numbers, rather than the set whose element is the set of prime numbers"
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Professor Krieger discusses density of hyperbolicity, complex dynamics, iteration, and of course the Mandelbrot Set.
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Dragons, Dice and Evil Numbers.
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Correction: the optimal number for the original 20-sided die problem is actually 35 (this is slightly better than 34). James has been fed to the dragon as punishment for this error.
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