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Henry Wilbraham

Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) was an English mathematician. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's paper on the Gibbs phenomenon. (Wikipedia).

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Andrew Wiles talks to Hannah Fry

Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Andrew Wiles in Conversation with Hannah Fry In the first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture, in partnership with the Science Museum, world-renowned mathematician Andrew Wiles lectured on his current work around Elliptic Curves followed by c

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The voice of Henry Herbert Asquith - 1909

Henry Herbert Asquith's budget speech of 1909.

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Robert Walpole: The Dictator of Britain

Robert Walpole was memed by Extra Credits after the south sea bubble so i decided to make a video on him. He was the first prime minister, rising through the ranks from poverty to become an MP , secretary at war, finance minister, and then using that, along with the South Sea Bubble to as

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Sir Norman Birkett - This I Believe - 1950s Radio Broadcast

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, PC, QC was a British barrister, judge, politician and preacher who served as the alternate British judge during the Nuremberg Trials. Member of Parliament for Nottingham East. (Wikipedia) An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Ed

From playlist Voices of History

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Sir Charles G. Darwin - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast

Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Sir Charles Darwin, was an English physicist. Director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War.

From playlist Voices of History

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Andrew Wiles - The Abel Prize interview 2016

0:35 The history behind Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem 1:08 An historical account of Fermat’s last theorem by Dundas 2:40 Wiles takes us through the first attempts to solve the theorem 5:33 Kummer’s new number systems 8:30 Lamé, Kummer and Fermat’s theorem 9:10 Wiles tried to so

From playlist Sir Andrew J. Wiles

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Andrew Wiles | Twenty Years of Number Theory | 1998

Notes for this talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eJXPwL772Z00egvLjO3VHmvCv7mwcv6Q/view?usp=sharing Twenty Years of Number Theory Andrew Wiles Princeton University ICM Berlin 19.08.1998 https://www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-videos/icm-1998-videos-berlin-germany/icm-berlin-videos-2708

From playlist Number Theory

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Quantum Physics and Universal Beauty - with Frank Wilczek

How simple questions inspired Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Frank's book "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design" is available to purchase now - https://geni.us/Cz75S63 No

From playlist Ri Talks

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The Briefs | Part One (Criminal Law Documentary) | Real Stories

With unprecedented access to Britain’s busiest legal aid practice, The Briefs takes us into the cut-throat world of criminal law. The Briefs follows the skilful lawyers of Tuckers in Manchester, as they look after their clients on cases ranging from blackmail to murder. The lawyers cover e

From playlist Crime Documentaries

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Suing The Police | The Briefs (Criminal Law Documentary) | Real Stories

With unprecedented access to Britain’s busiest legal aid practice, The Briefs takes us into the cut-throat world of criminal law. The Briefs follows the skilful lawyers of Tuckers in Manchester, as they look after their clients on cases ranging from blackmail to murder. The lawyers cover e

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Taproot, Mastering Bitcoin, Coinjoin, & More with Andreas Antonopoulos - November 2021

In this Livestream, Andreas talks about Taproot, Mastering Bitcoin, and Coinjoin. He also talks about Monero, Private Keys, what happens if you lose your mnemonic phrase, and more! Chapters 0:00:00 Start of Stream 0:06:45 Do you think Bitcoin could become the fuel to make the Tor network

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Sir Norman Angell - This I Believe - 1950s Radio Broadcast

An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955. Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament[1] for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal founders

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Henry VIII - OverSimplified

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Ten Minute English and British History #17 - The Early Tudors: Henry VIII and the Church of England

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode covers the aftermath of Wars of the Roses through the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII of the Tudor dynasty. It covers Henry VII's attempts to stabilise the kingdom and bring it power

From playlist English and British History

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Henry VIII and the Break with Rome

In this lecture, Dr Jonathan Willis (University of Birmingham) explores the role of Henry VIII in the English Reformation, focusing on: (i) Henry's own religious beliefs – as far as we can know them; and (ii) his attempts to have his marriage to Catherine annulled, culminating with the 153

From playlist History

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The White Ship

A single event in 1120 set off years of war and instability that would lead to the rise of house Plantagenet, which ruled England until 1485. That one event was a disaster with reverberations throughout history, one of those moments on which history pivots. This is original content based

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Ten Minute English and British History #10 - The Angevin Empire and Richard the Lionheart

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode covers the rise of the House of Anjou/Plantagenet and the birth of what some historians call the Angevin Empire. The episode covers the reigns of two kings, Henry II and Richard I, bett

From playlist English and British History

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Ten Minute English and British History #16 - The Wars of the Roses

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode covers the infamous Wars of the Roses (yes plural) which engulfed England after its failure during the Hundred Years' War. This conflict saw the House of Lancaster and the House of York

From playlist English and British History

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Ten Minute English and British History #11 - King John and the Magna Carta

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode covers the reign of King John and the problems he had securing the Angevin inheritance and the subsequent issues his baron's posed. These problems culminated in the signing of the Magna

From playlist English and British History

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Henri Darmon: Andrew Wiles' marvelous proof

Abstract: Pierre de Fermat famously claimed to have discovered “a truly marvelous proof” of his last theorem, which the margin in his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica was too narrow to contain. Fermat's proof (if it ever existed!) is probably lost to posterity forever, while Andrew Wiles' p

From playlist Abel Lectures

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