John Wilson (6 August 1741, Applethwaite, Westmorland – 18 October 1793, Kendal, Westmorland) was an English mathematician and judge. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Wilson attended school in Staveley, Cumbria before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1757, where he was a student of Edward Waring. He was Senior Wrangler in 1761. He was later knighted, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1782. He was Judge of Common Pleas from 1786 until his death in 1793. (Wikipedia).
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
From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox
John Conway Circle Theorem Proof
An original dynamic proof of the late John Conway's Circle Theorem. Sadly, John died in 2020 from Covid 19. He has been described by fellow Mathematicians as a creative genius.
From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos
The Mind of a Genius: John von Neumann I The Great Courses
If John von Neumann were on LinkedIn, his experience would include the Manhattan Project, early computer science, the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and the invention of game theory. A famed mathematician, Neumann played a major role in all of these by using applied heuristics. Add heuris
From playlist Science
Woodrow Wilson: A World War and a League of Nations (1913 - 1921)
Woodrow Wilson was president during a time when a lot was changing in the world. World War I broke out, and as hard as he tried to keep America out of it, it was inevitable that it enter the action, only to emerge as the world's premiere superpower. Wilson had a lot of progressive views, a
From playlist American History
Speaker: PAUL WILSON REAL HUSTLER The Art of the Con. Paul Wilson is the writer and star of "The Real Hustle" and creator of "The Takedown" on Court TV and "Scammed" on The History Channel. He is one of the world's finest magicians and an expert on cons, scams, casino cheating and gambli
From playlist DEFCON 20
This Chancellor's Chair Lecture, recorded on March 21, 2011, addresses the expressive legalism of the American Revolution and explains how it turned into a legal culture that ceased to stand in imaginative solidarity with "the people themselves." Republican law lived in a contradiction bet
From playlist UC Irvine School of Law: 2012 Lectures & Seminar Series
Marcus du Sautoy on John Tates' work
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics. You can view more content of Marcus du Sautoy here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF21Xc9fSdqVWRxpBAOleQ/featured This video is a clip from the Abel Prize Announcement 2009
From playlist Popular presentations
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
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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
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
From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox
Effective Assistance of Counsel (s7b)
Effective Assistance of Counsel (s7b) This segment examines the quality of legal representation for poor people accused of capital or other crimes, as well as the right of a defendant to a lawyer who is not representing defendants with conflicting interests. Class readings: https://www.d
From playlist Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, & Disadvantage with Stephen Bright
Knots and Quantum Theory | Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor
Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study http://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/witten A knot is more or less what you think it is—a tangled mess of string in ordinary three-dimensional space. In the twentieth century, mathe
From playlist Natural Sciences
Des MacHale - The Humour Of Mathematics - CoM Mar 2022
We look at the role that humour plays in the teaching and understanding of mathematics, with hilariously funny illustrations and examples. The aim is to show how humour humanises the subject, makes it more enjoyable, and show that mathematicians are prepared to laugh at themselves and the
From playlist Celebration of Mind
Thank you to Wondrium for sponsoring today's video! Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/4pQU50LVqK8 CREDITS: Charts & Narration by Matt Baker Animation by Syawish Rehman Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz Theme music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under
From playlist Famous People Family Trees
Teddy Roosevelt & Franklin Roosevelt Family Tree
Try Adntro now for free: http://bit.ly/3lmA1qd Use code USEFULCHARTS to get 10% off the paid version. View the full Roosevelt chart here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsefulCharts/comments/11u7nhz/the_roosevelt_family/ Credits: Chart by Nathaniel Voth Narration/Script by Matt Baker Animation
From playlist US President & VP Family Trees
The Preamble to the Constitution | US Government and Politics | Khan Academy
Sal discusses the Preamble to the US Constitution with Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center. To learn more about US Government and Politics, visit Khan Academy at https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-government-and-politics To read more of the Pream
From playlist The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Volodya Kazakov - Bootstrap for Lattice Yang-Mills Theory
I will speak about my recent work with Zechuan Zheng where we study the SU(Nc) lattice Yang-Mills theory in the ’t Hooft limit Nc → infinity, at dimensions D=2,3,4, via the numerical bootstrap method. It combines the Makeenko-Migdal loop equations, with the cut-off L on maximal length of W
From playlist Mikefest: A conference in honor of Michael Douglas' 60th birthday
John Law - The First Financial Engineer - A History of Paper Money and The Mississippi Bubble
John Law was a Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the “Mississippi scheme” for the development of French territories in America. After killing an adversary in a duel, he fled to Amsterdam, where he was a professional gambler and learned about banking operations. A decade later h
From playlist Top Ten Lists
O'Reilly Webcast: Machine Learning for Hackers
We'll introduce programmers to two of the most common tools in the machine learning toolkit: linear regression and logistic regression. We'll show how these two tools let you make a first pass at solving almost any machine learning problem you might face. About John Myles White John Myle
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Shamit Kachru - Adventures in Theoretical Physics
I give a qualitative description of a few problems in theoretical physics that I’ve thought about in recent years (the variety of ideas and techniques has a good overlap with some of Mike’s past interests). Topics will include a quantum field theory approach to determining Ricci flat metri
From playlist Mikefest: A conference in honor of Michael Douglas' 60th birthday