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Trillions of Questions, No Easy Answers: A (home) movie about how Google Search works

Posted on December 16, 2020 by agogo22

Like any typical home movie, this one started in a dusty basement with boxes of old footage. Some conversations in 2019, a field trip to a data center, and an unexpected stop at a hardware store later, it came together … Continue reading →

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Cantor’s Infinity Paradox | Set Theory

Posted on December 15, 2020 by agogo22

[…]If you’d like to consider supporting Up and Atom, head over to my Patreon page 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/upandatom For a one time donation, head over to my PayPal 🙂 https://www.paypal.me/upandatomshows *Music* https://www.epidemicsound.com/ *Sources* The Annotated Turing – Charles Petzold https://universalflowuniversity.com/B… https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turi… … Continue reading →

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Drawing the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th dimension

Posted on December 9, 2020 by agogo22

 

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Aristotle’s Wheel Paradox – To Infinity and Beyond

Posted on November 23, 2020 by agogo22

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 Want to know more? Watch this video: Cantor’s Infinity Paradox – https://youtu.be/X56zst79Xjg

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Q: What Is a Hole? A: We’re Not Sure! | Kottke

Posted on November 16, 2020 by agogo22

How many holes does a donut have? That’s pretty easy: one. What about a straw? Two (one at each end) or just one? (Isn’t a straw just an elongated donut?) Does a coffee mug have one hole or two? Does … Continue reading →

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Your Daily Equation #22: 8 – 2 ÷ 2 x 3 + 4 = ?

Posted on November 11, 2020 by agogo22

Episode 22 #YourDailyEquation: Simple arithmetic problems go viral with people proposing all sorts of different answers. It speaks to an important concept–the order of various operations matters–but, as Brian Greene discusses, is often taught in a less-than-inspirational way in the … Continue reading →

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Remembering John Conway

Posted on October 7, 2020 by agogo22

Bay Area Artists and Mathematicians – BAAM! with Gathering 4 Gardner – G4G present Remembering John Conway Mathematician John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 on April 11, 2020. On April 25th, the Bay Area Artists and Mathematicians (BAAM!) hosted an … Continue reading →

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Group theory and why I love 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000

Posted on October 7, 2020 by agogo22

Errors: *Typo on the “hard problem” at 14:11, it should be a/(b+c) + b/(a+c) + c/(a+b) = 4 *Typo-turned-speako: The classification of quasithin groups is 1221 pages long, not 12,000. The full collection of papers proving the CFSG theorem do … Continue reading →

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Why do prime numbers make these spirals?

Posted on October 7, 2020 by agogo22

A story of mathematical play. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/spiral-thanks Based on this Math Stack Exchange post: https://math.stackexchange.com/questi… Want to learn more about rational approximations? See this Mathologer video. Also, if you haven’t heard of Ulam … Continue reading →

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Why is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽

Posted on September 6, 2020 by agogo22

A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail is out now: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/p… Come for the Unnecessary Detail, stay for the A Podcast Of. These are my approximation equations: perimeter ≈ Ï€[53a/3 + 717b/35 – √(269a^2 + 667ab + 371b^2)] perimeter ≈ Ï€(6a/5 + … Continue reading →

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