Number theorists | Differential geometers
Joseph Louis François Bertrand (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf lwi fʁɑ̃swa bɛʁtʁɑ̃]; 11 March 1822 – 5 April 1900) was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics. (Wikipedia).
Présentation de l'exposition "Emile Borel : un mathématicien au pluriel"
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From playlist Bibliothèque
Lagrange Bicentenary - Luigi Pepe's conference
Scientific biography of Joseph Louis Lagrange Part one, Lagrange in Turin : calculus of variation and vibrating sring Part two, Lagrange in Paris : didactical works and Dean for Scientific activities at the National Institute
From playlist Bicentenaire Joseph-Louis Lagrange
The Easiest Problem Everyone Gets Wrong
We know how difficult the Monty Hall Problem is for so many people even after they’re shown all the math behind the best possible strategy. It’s basic probability, but it’s deceptive -- and it all started with the Bertrand’s Box Paradox. In this video, I go back to the origins of a probab
From playlist Prob and Stats
Pierre de Fermat: Biography of a Great Thinker
As a mathematician, Pierre de Fermat is known as the "Prince of Amateurs." He was actually a lawyer, but worked on math as a hobby. He helped found probability theory and analytic geometry, and made many contributions to number theory. He is possibly best known for "Fermat's Last Theore
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
Colloque d'histoire des sciences "Gaston Darboux (1842 - 1917)" - Barnabé Croizat - 17/11/17
En partenariat avec le séminaire d’histoire des mathématiques de l’IHP Ovales, cyclides et surfaces orthogonales : les premières amours géométriques de Darboux Barnabé Croizat, Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, Université Lille 1 & CNRS À l’occasion du centenaire de la mort de Gaston Darboux, l
From playlist Colloque d'histoire des sciences "Gaston Darboux (1842 - 1917)" - 17/11/2017
Lagrange Bicentenary - Cédric Villani's conference
From the stability of the Solar system to the stability of plasmas
From playlist Bicentenaire Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Rene Descartes is perhaps the world’s best known-philosopher, in large part because of his pithy statement, ‘I think therefore I am.’ He stands out as an example of what intellectual self-confidence can bring us. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take
From playlist WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
Napoleon Bonaparte: Master of Europe - Part 2
This is part two of my Napoleon Bonaparte Series how he came to power in the french revolution and the help of Robespierre to launch a continent spanning war and declaring himself master of Europe and emperor of the french Explaining why he's so revered in history and what made him specia
From playlist Biographies
In Praise of Boredom - Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova s a Russian-American writer and journalist, who primarily writes about psychology and literature. Her Strata+Hadoop keynote on why we need to pursue boredom. Watch more from Strata + Hadoop NYC 2015: https://goo.gl/UunGPH Visit our curated data topic page: http://oreilly.
From playlist Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2015 (New York City)
Louis Pasteur: Biography of a Great Thinker || History of Science
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French chemist and considered the "Father of Microbiology." He made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of crystallography, fermentation, and vaccination. We still use his process for preserving food, pasteurization, to this day. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Love Soc
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem - Numberphile
Featuring Alex Bellos. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos with Alex Bellos: http://bit.ly/Bellos_Playlist Alex's website: http://www.alexbellos.com And his boo
From playlist Alex Bellos on Numberphile
Bernard Shaw - Biography in Sound (1955) - Featuring Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Nancy Astor
'They knew Bernard Shaw'. An episode of the NBC documentary radio programme 'Biography in Sound'. Featuring Bernard Shaw himself, Sir Bertrand Russell, Cedric Hardwicke, Rebecca West, John Mason Brown, Lady Nancy Astor, Norman Thomas, Lillie Palmer and others. Broadcast on 27 March 195
From playlist Voices of History
What Matters to Me And Why: Erwin Chermerinsky
Recorded October 9, 2013. Erwin Chemerinsky is founding dean, Distinguished Professor of Law and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the UC Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in political science. His areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, c
From playlist What Matters to Me and Why
Norbert Verdier : When He was one hundred Years old!
In this Talks we will don’t speak about Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) but about Lagrange’s reception at the nineteenth Century. “Who read Lagrange at this Times?”, “Why and How?”, “What does it mean being a mathematician or doing mathematics at this Century” are some of the questions o
From playlist Lagrange Days at CIRM
Bertrand Russell - Great Interview with John Chandos - 1961
Speaking Personally: Earl Bertrand Russell. 1961. Interview with John Chandos. Recorded on 11-12 April 1961 at Bertrand Russell's house in North Wales. List of Topics: Childhood and Earliest Memories Life Begins at Cambridge Eccentrics and Personages Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson
From playlist Bertrand Russell
Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
Featuring Grant Sanderson, creator of 3blue1brown. Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/pJyKM-7IgAU 3blue1brown video on the shadow a cube: https://youtu.be/ltLUadnCyi0 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_e
From playlist Guest appearances on other channels
De Gaulle - Republican Monarch
Portraits of Power - DeGaulle - Republican Monarch Narrated by Henry Fonda Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first president from
From playlist Portraits of Power - Those who shaped the Twentieth Century
Lagrange Bicentenary - Jacques Laskar's conference
Lagrange and the stability of the Solar System
From playlist Bicentenaire Joseph-Louis Lagrange
How Light Travels Through Time | The World's First Time Machine | Spark
If you shine a light at a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light, will the way they see the light be different? If you were to travel faster than the speed of light, would you age slower? Full documentary available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc9_ZFxMvMw Subscribe to Sp
From playlist Science Bites