John Wilson (mathematician and judge)

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

DEFCON 20: The Art Of The Con

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

Republican Law, 1770-1830

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

From playlist Livestreams

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

Elon Musk Family Tree

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

From playlist O'Reilly Webcasts 2

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