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John Pell (mathematician)

John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician and political agent abroad. (Wikipedia).

John Pell (mathematician)
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The story of mathematical proof – with John Stillwell

Discover the surprising history of proof, a mathematically vital concept. In this talk John covers the areas of number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and logic, and peer into the deep chasm between natural number arithmetic and the real numbers. Buy John's book here: https://g

From playlist Livestreams

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Linear Algebra 21g: Euler Angles and a Short Tribute to Leonhard Euler

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From playlist Part 3 Linear Algebra: Linear Transformations

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Présentation de l'exposition "Emile Borel : un mathématicien au pluriel"

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From playlist Bibliothèque

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Who was Newton?

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From playlist Science Unplugged: Physics

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#MegaFavNumbers, Mine is 226,153,980. What's yours?

#MegaFavNumbers Welcome to MainlyMathExcursions! Today we'll be taking a little trip Pellward. We'll board the bus at 61 and arrive at 226,153,980 and 1,766,319,049. This is my first YouTube video, I hope you like it. Here's a shout-out to blackpenredpen for his encouragement, and to ever

From playlist MegaFavNumbers

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M. C. Escher - Artist, Mathematician, Man - Roger Penrose and Jon Chapman

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Roger Penrose and Jon Chapman - M. C. Escher - Artist, Mathematician, Man M.C. Escher is known as the mathematician's (and hippie's) favourite artist. But why? And was Escher, a man who claimed he knew no mathematics, really a mathematical genius? In th

From playlist The Roger Penrose Playlist

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How did Ramanujan solve the STRAND puzzle?

Today's video is about making sense of an infinite fraction that pops up in an anecdote about the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. 00:00 Intro 04:31 Chapter 1: Getting a feel for the puzzle 08:27 Chapter 2: Algebra autopilot 12:37 Chapter 3: Infinite fraction 17:51 Chapter 4: Roo

From playlist Recent videos

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Black Holes, Symmetries and Impossible Triangles - In Conversation with Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose is a mathematical physicist and Nobel Laureate whose work spans impossible triangles and tilings that bear his name to the mathematical underpinnings of black holes. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/HqlB_qfaXIg Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor

From playlist Ri Talks

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#MegaFavNumbers

#MegaFavNumbers A small discussion regarding a famous "proof" that all numbers are interesting. This video is my participation in the #MegaFavNumbers project.

From playlist MegaFavNumbers

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Visualising irrationality with triangular squares

NEW (Christmas 2019). Two ways to support Mathologer Mathologer Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mathologer Mathologer PayPal: paypal.me/mathologer (see the Patreon page for details) Get ready for some brand new and very pretty visual proofs of the fact that root 2, root 3, root 5 and r

From playlist Recent videos

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The Mafia's Secret Bunkers (Organised Crime Documentary) | Real Stories |

Italy's most powerful organised crime group is no longer Sicily's Cosa Nostra but the 'Ndrangheta', a shadowy Mafia from the southern region of Calabria. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu Follow us on Twitter for more - https://twitter.com/r

From playlist Crime Documentaries

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Gary Walsh: On binary quartic Thue equations and related topics

CIRM VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Recorded during the meeting "​ Diophantine Problems, Determinism and Randomness" the November 25, 2020 by the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Marseille, France) Filmmaker: Guillaume Hennenfent Find this video and other talks given by worldwide

From playlist Virtual Conference

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Robert Langlands on Harish-Chandra [2014]

Harish-Chandra---IISER Pune There are at several aspects of Harish-Chandra, his life, and his work on which one can reflect: his personality; the nature of his contributions and their position in mathematics; his relation to the land of his birth. It would have been in 1961-62, as I was

From playlist Mathematics

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SM64 Pendulum Math [EP1]: 6,248,970 and 507,780 (#MegaFavNumbers)

Pannenkoek2012's Pendulum Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35hBQ0zfO0 Pell's equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%27s_equation Brahmagupta's identity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta%27s_identity Pendulum Amplitude Equation: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qimiwh

From playlist MegaFavNumbers

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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

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews

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TEDxCaltech - Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne - Finding Things Out

Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved su

From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11

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Number theory and algebra in Asia (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger

After the later Alexandrian mathematicians Ptolemy and Diophantus, Greek mathematics went into decline and the focus shifted eastward. This lecture discusses some aspects of Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematics, in particular the interest in number theory: Pell's equation, the Chinese rema

From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics

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Number theory and algebra in Asia (b) | Math History | NJ Wildberger

After the later Alexandrian mathematicians Ptolemy and Diophantus, Greek mathematics went into decline and the focus shifted eastward. This lecture discusses some aspects of Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematics, in particular the interest in number theory (Pell's equation, the Chinese rema

From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics

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!!Con West 2020 - Aaron Wood: The Ancient Greeks and Their Restless Cattle: 2300 years of Bigints!

Presented at !!Con West 2020: http://bangbangcon.com/west Previously on The Ancient and the Restless: Archimedes’ new BigNumeral class is the talk of the town, but his biggest rival is out to destroy and replace it. Not to be outdone, Archimedes poses a cattle-counting problem to cement h

From playlist !!Con West 2020

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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

From playlist Interviews with Oxford Mathematicians

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