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Patrick Michael Grundy

Patrick Michael Grundy (16 November 1917, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight – 4 November 1959) was an English mathematician and statistician. He was one of the eponymous co-discoverers of the Sprague–Grundy function and its application to the analysis of a wide class of combinatorial games. (Wikipedia).

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The Search for the Theory of Everything - with John Gribbin

Astrophysicist John Gribbin presents his own version of the ‘Holy Grail’ of physics, bringing quantum theory and the general theory of relativity together in one mathematical package offering the answer to life and the universe. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRi

From playlist Ri Talks

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People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Julia Higgins on Michael Faraday

President of the Institute of Physics Professor Julia Higgins joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the life and work of Michael Faraday and how his curiosity and passion for communicating science inspires her. (5/6) #BrianCox #Faraday #Electromagnetism #Electricity #Physics #RoyalInstitu

From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox

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INTERVIEW AT CIRM : MICHAEL ARTIN

Michael ARTIN participated in the "Artin Approximation and Infinite dimensional Geometry" event organized at CIRM in March 2015, which was part of the Jean-Morlet semester held by Herwig Hauser. Michael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Ins

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews

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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

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Allan Cormack

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital, I wanted to make this short video about someone else who worked here and won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1979 for it. Allan Cormack was a physicist who worked at Groote Schuur Hos

From playlist Let's talk Surgery

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Einstein's Gravity

A concise visual explanation to better understand Einstein's vision of gravitation. For more videos, subscribe to the YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/ScienceClicEN And if you liked this video, you can share it on social networks ! To support me on Patreon : http://www.patreon.c

From playlist Astrophysics and Cosmos

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The End of Space and Time? - Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf

Robbert Dijkgraaf's focus is on string theory, quantum gravity, and the interface between mathematics and particle physics, bringing them together in an accessible way, looking at sciences, the arts and other matters. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available f

From playlist Science

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Harold Shipman: Doctor Death Who Killed 250 Patients (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

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From playlist Real Stories: Serial Killers

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The True Frontier - Alfred Bester - Extra Sci Fi

Alfred Bester is known for bridging the gap between science fiction and detective comics, creating villains like Solomon Grundy in the Green Lantern and Superman stories and for his long-form stories "The Demolished Man" (which won the first Hugo award) and "The Stars My Destination" which

From playlist Extra Sci Fi (ALL EPISODES)

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Stanford Faculty - Meet Hank Greely

Hank Greely is a Professor of Law and Professor (by Courtesy) of Genetics who teaches in the Stanford Genetics and Genomics Certificate program. More info: http://geneticscertificate.stanford.edu/index.php Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professo

From playlist Genetics & Genomics

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Art is for everyone! What is TROMPE L'OEIL?

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From playlist Art glossary

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Doctor Death: Britain's Worst Serial Killer (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

Britain’s biggest serial killer was a doctor, Dr Harold Shipman. Unsuspected for many years, Dr. Shipman selected his victims from his patient list. There were clues, but who in the community would believe that a doctor would kill his patients? Suspected of killing over 350 people during h

From playlist Crime Documentaries

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Ichess 5: K + r, N + r, and Mex

In the fifth video in the Impartial Chess series, we explore the games of King + Baby Rook, Knight + Baby Rook, and discuss the concept of the minimal excludant. To see how we found the Knight's Grundy Table at 6:33, watch Ichess 5 1/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3M7vhh2T_g&list=PLj

From playlist Intro to Impartial Combinatorial Games and Their Theory

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Ichess 4: R, r, B, rr and Their Grundy Numbers

The fourth video of the Impartial Chess series covers the Big Rook, Baby Rook, Twin Baby Rooks, and the Bishop.

From playlist Intro to Impartial Combinatorial Games and Their Theory

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Ichess 8: Bouton's Solution of NIM

In this eighth video of the Impartial Chess series, we prove Bouton's Theorem and discuss it's relevance to the game of NIM.

From playlist Intro to Impartial Combinatorial Games and Their Theory

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Ichess 6: R + r

This sixth video in the Impartial Chess series covers the game of Big Rook + Baby Rook.

From playlist Intro to Impartial Combinatorial Games and Their Theory

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Interview at Cirm: Martin Hairer

Interview at Cirm: Martin Hairer, Fields Medalist 2014 Currently Regius Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of The University of Warwick. Martin Hairer KBE FRS (born 14 November 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an Austrian mathematician working in the field of stochastic

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair - Khanin/Shlosman - 1st Semester 2017

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Ichess 5 and 1/2: N and His Grundy Table

This video serves as a more in-depth explanation of the Knight's Grundy Table seen in Ichess 5.

From playlist Intro to Impartial Combinatorial Games and Their Theory

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Greedy coloring | Frank Yates | Design of experiments | Sprague–Grundy theorem | Abstract algebra | Sampling (statistics) | Ideal (ring theory) | Statistics | Algebraic geometry | Truncated distribution | Grundy number | Module (mathematics) | Combinatorial game theory