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Babylonians Used Pythagoras Theory 1000 Years Before He Was Born
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new confirmation that Pythagorean triangles were well known and used much before he was born. Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10…. […]
World’s OLDEST Homework
[…] Sources: A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, Jöran Friberg, Springer (2007): https://www.ams.org/notices/200809/tx… A great introduction to the number system and tablets by Insights into Mathematics (authors of relevant papers mentioned in this video): https://youtu.be/J5Ug3Cr8RUE Australian mathematician discovers applied … Continue reading
I Finally Found Out What 0/0 Should Be
[…] 0 divided by 0 is sort of a mystery. Does 0/0=1? Does 0/0=2? Is 0 over 0 infinity? If we are talking about a 0 over 0 limit, we say 0 over 0 is indeterminate. However, in this video … Continue reading
Why you can expect to live past your life expectancy
This is our submission to the #VeritasiumContest Length restriction is one minute, so apologies for the brevity. I’ll have a longer video about life expectancy and how COVID affected it later. Info about the contest is here: here https://www.veritasium.com/contest Contact … Continue reading
Ordinary Household Objects in Visually Satisfying Arrangements | My Modern Met
By Margherita Cole on August 9, 2021 There’s no Photoshop involved. Just a creative vision and A LOT of patience. Artist Adam Hillman has a way of finding hidden beauty in ordinary objects. He uses items like toothpicks, buttons, and … Continue reading
The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve — it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up … Continue reading
Why does this balloon have -1 holes?
[…] Do check out Jordan Ellenberg’s book Shape. This video was inspired by Chapter 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/bo… https://www.jordanellenberg.com/book/… Support me on Patreon and I will post you a free torus balloon. I hope I don’t regret this. https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Here is Sam … Continue reading
Berry’s Paradox – An Algorithm For Truth
[…] Hi! I’m Jade. If you’d like to consider supporting Up and Atom, head over to my Patreon page 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/upandatom Lose at rock paper scissors http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kms/schools… Subscribe to Up and Atom for physics, math and computer science videos https://www.youtube.com/c/upandatom … Continue reading
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there | Donald Hoffman
Galileo was quite controversial, in part, because he argued that Earth moved around the sun, despite people’s senses deluding them that the world was static. Evolution may have primed us to see the world in terms of payoffs rather than … Continue reading
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