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Game Theory of Power-to-the-Powerful
This video explains game theory of power-to-the-powerful. It looks at questions such as: What does it mean to “have power”? What is game theory? How do competition and cooperation coincide? What can we do about power-to-the-powerful? Image credit for John … Continue reading
Ancient trick to calculate ANY square root
An ancient formula is astoundingly accurate. Why didn’t we learn this in school? 0:00 history 2:32 calculations 7:22 sqrt 2 10:19 intuition Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Babylonian numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Josell7, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… via Wikimedia … Continue reading
Astonishing discovery by computer scientist: how to squeeze space into time
This year, computer scientist Ryan Williams showed an astounding connection between space and time. He thought it was too strange to be true. But, it is. It’s about space, time, fundamental constraints, a 50-year-old mystery, and magical pebbles that resolved … Continue reading
The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
[…] A huge thank you to Steven Strogatz, Alex Kontorovich, Harald Helfgott, Senia Sheydvasser, Jared Duker Lichtman, Roger Heath-Brown, Kevin Ford, Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Kaneenika Sinha & Shehzad Hathi for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video. Look out … Continue reading
Why only ONE ancient CIVILIZATION invented the true number ZERO!
This is a lecture about a chapter of my world history book called: “In Search of the Sublime – A world history of humanity’s relentless pursuit of scientific truth, moral excellence, and enlightenment.” Read the book for FREE at: worldhistorybook.com … Continue reading
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