People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Wendy Hall on Alan Turing
Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world. Find out more about Alan Turing in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/peopl
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Euclidean and Algebraic Geometry, David Cox [2014]
Slides for this talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s87shlFPPVolx1dV7H4CBc1DjDrh0piR/view?usp=sharing David Cox Amherst College This talk will survey some examples, mostly geometric questions about Euclidean space, where the methods of algebraic geometry can offer some insight. I wil
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INTERVIEW AT CIRM: PETER SARNAK
Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in
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Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius
Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of the greatest
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Mathematics: the next 100 years - Oxford Mathematics Alumni Lecture
How will mathematics develop over coming decades? Impossible to predict? Perhaps, but a glance backwards might prove a fruitful guide. A panel of Oxford Mathematicians pondered past, present and future at our annual Alumni Lecture and found themselves talking not only about maths that we
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Brian Cox - Making Britain the best place in the world to do science
Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture by Professor Brian Cox OBE Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Tue 19 Feb 2013 5:30pm - 6:30pm For more information visit http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/brian-cox
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Richard Fortey on Charles Lyell
Richard Fortey talks to Brian Cox about pioneering geologist, Charles Lyell, whose work on extending geological time provided credibility to Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Find out more about Charles Lyell in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/ex
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Professor Joanna Haigh on Lewis Fry Richardson
Joanna Haigh talks to Brian Cox about mathematician and physicist, Lewis Fry Richardson, and discusses his groundbreaking concept of a ‘weather forecasting factory’. Find out more about Lewis Fry Richardson in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/
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TRM intern Joshua Ryman performs a maths-themed stand-up comedy show at St Edmund Hall. Joshua is a fourth year Maths student at the University of Oxford. The show was first performed at IF Oxford - the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. With thanks to the London Mathematical Society (LMS
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Professor Martin Rees on Joseph Rotblat
Martin Rees talks to Brian Cox about one of his heroes, Joseph Rotblat, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, who later became a leading advocate of peace and disarmament. Archive credits: Portrait of Joseph Rotblat © Anne Purkiss Hans Bethe portrait - Los Alamos National Laboratory, a
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Gambling with Secrets: 8/8 (RSA Encryption)
RSA Encryption - How & why it works. Euclid, Euler, Cocks and much more Link to time complexity graph used in the video: https://www.khanacademy.org/labs/explorations/time-complexity Newer animated version: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/applied-math/cryptography/modern-crypt/p/time-com
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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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Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 1 - BBC One
Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://bbc.in/29kGs3z Honeybees around the world build perfectly hexagonal honeycombs, but why? Professor Brian Cox reveals the hidden mathematical rule
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How Popular are You? | Head Squeeze
Hannah Fry looks at why your friends are more popular than you, from a mathematical point of view. Subscribe to Earth Lab for more fascinating science videos - http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthLab Follow Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FryRsquared Number Hub - Ep 28 Stand up mathema
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Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
Explore the circular reasoning fallacy, which occurs when the end of an argument comes back to the start without having proven itself. -- It’s 1990. A prospective student has filed a complaint about Virginia Military institute’s admissions policy that excludes women. The state argues tha
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Sir David Spiegelhalter
Sir David Spiegelhalter discusses how the work of amateur mathematician Thomas Bayes and statistician Ronald Fisher – who was also a leading proponent of the now completely discredited eugenics movement - helped to shape the current thinking of probability. Explore our Google Arts and Cu
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What really happened to the Library of Alexandria? - Elizabeth Cox
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very audacious goal: to collect all the knowledge in the
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Inspiring science books of 2017 with Brian Cox
Join Professor Brian Cox as we look at the best science writing of 2017, and announce this year’s winning book. Explore the shortlist from the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and discover the most inspirational popular science books and authors of the year. Selected
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Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius [2012]
Description: Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of
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