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Three Great Mathematicians: Hardy, Littlewood and Hardy-Littlewood - Professor Raymond Flood
“Nowadays, there are only three really great English Mathematicians: Hardy, Littlewood, and Hardy-Littlewood,” reported Harold Bohr in 1947. Their collaboration was so great that some even doubted their real existence, sometimes to comic...
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Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics: An Introduction by Professor Raymond Flood
Gresham Professor of Geometry, Professor Raymond Flood, introduces us to his 2014-15 lecture series on the lives and work of the greatest Mathematicians in history. From Fermat to Euler, Fourier to Cantor, Professor Flood will examine...
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The Great Mathematicians - Professor Robin Wilson and Dr Raymond Flood
A lecture to mark the publication of Robin Wilson and Raymond Flood's new book. Mathematics pervades our daily lives. Our credit cards and the nation's defence are kept secure largely due to the properties of prime numbers, and...
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Isaac Barrow and Other Great Mathematicians of Gresham College - Professor Tony Mann
Professor Tony Mann of the University of Greenwich and Visiting Gresham Professor of Computing Mathematics discusses some of his personal heroes in Mathematics. Tony Mann is Visiting Professor of Computer Mathematics at Gresham College....
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Is a Mathematician a Robot? - Professor Chris Budd OBE
Robotics is another of HM Governments eight great technologies. Is it possible that in a few years we might have machines with artificial intelligence? In this lecture I will describe the mathematics of machine learning and explain its...
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The Greatest Mathematicians: Isaac Newton - Professor Raymond Flood
A short introduction to Professor Flood’s lecture on Isaac Newton. Though Newton’s work is of foundational importance, very little is said about the man himself. Professor Flood describe Newton as a “suspicious, neurotic and tortured...
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The Quantum Mathematician - Professor Chris Budd OBE
Quantum science has been one of the most successful and useful theories ever invented. Indeed quantum technology was added as the ninth of the original eight great technologies. However, quantum mechanics is also, at the same time, one...
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What Positive Number Doubles When The Last Digit Moves To The First Digit? Riddle For "Geniuses"
If the last digit of this POSITIVE whole number becomes the first digit, the resulting number is exactly twice as large. My number is the smallest whole number with this property. What is my number? Watch the video for a solution. I'll...
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Why Mathematicians Love 69,720,375,229,712,477,164,533,808,935,312,303,556,800
The number N = 69,720,375,229,712,477,164,533,808,935,312,303,556,800 is special - it is the smallest number that has all numbers 1 to 100 as factors. The puzzle: what is the prime factorization of N? Watch the video for a solution....
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Only 18% Of Mathematicians Solved This Tricky Problem
This puzzle went viral in the discrete mathematics community because so many people got it wrong! You roll a fair dice until you get a 6. What is the expected number of rolls, including the roll of 6, conditioned on the event that all...
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Counter-Intuitive Probability Puzzle: Guessing Randomly On A Matching Test
You are given a list of 5 mathematicians and have to match each to the correct birth year. But since you were never taught about these mathematicians, you do not know any of the answers. So you decide to guess randomly by matching the 5...
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The Most Beautiful Formula in Mathematics - Professor Raymond Flood
In this short introduction to Euler and his work, Professor Raymond Flood talks about Euler’s enormous contribution to mathematics. As well as being one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time, Euler is often regarded as one of...
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Fermat's Theorems - Professor Raymond Flood
Gresham Professor of Geometry, Raymond Flood, begins his series 'Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics' with Pierre de Fermat:http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/fermats-theorems The seventeenth century mathematician Pierre de...
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The "Fibonacci" Sequence Was Actually Discovered In India 1000 Years Earlier
The sequence of numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc was described by Fibonacci around 1200 AD. The Indian mathematician Pingala found the sequence at least 1,000 years before (probably 200 BC) while analyzing Sanskrit poetry. This video...
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Isaac Newton: Mathematical Giant - Professor Raymond Flood
Isaac Newton’s work on celestial mechanics laid the foundation for the modern understanding of the world’ and the universe. He is the giant upon whose shoulders mathematicians stand. Professor Raymond Flood, Gresham Professor of Geometry...
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The 3 Jug Riddle
You have a full 12 liter jug and empty 5 and 8 liter jugs. Can you measure exactly 6 liters? This problem dates to 1484 and was posed in the context of a milkman making a home delivery to a customer. The story goes this riddle so...
World Science Festival
Spotlight: Things That Are Really There
Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, astrophysicist Mario Livio, from the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, takes us on a tour of the cosmos in all its...
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The Mathemagician
In this highly entertaining performance combining math with magic, Arthur Benjamin—aka, the the "Mathemagician"—displays amazing feats of mental mathematical gymnastics and explains the secrets behind his lightning-fast math skills. How...
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Mobius, his Band, and the Shape of the Universe - Professor Raymond Flood
Mobius is perhaps best known for his topological form, the Mobius Band, but whilst this is treated as a mathematical curiosity, its hugely important in the study of topology and cosmology. Professor Raymond Flood, Gresham Professor of...
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Cantor and the Infinite - Professor Raymond Flood
Never shy of explaining difficult mathematical concepts to a lay person, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Raymond Flood, discusses Cantor’s work on Infinities and sets. This is a short introduction to Professor Flood’s upcoming lecture on...
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Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan and Cartwright - Professor Raymond Flood
The story of the most productive collaborations in mathematical history: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/hardy-littlewood-cartwright-and-ramanujan The collaboration between G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and J.E. Littlewood...
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Some History of Latin Squares in Experiments - Professor R. A. Bailey
Professor Rosemary A. Bailey takes the audience through the hsitory of the latin square :http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/some-history-of-latin-squares-in-experiments Professor Rosemary A. Bailey takes the audience through...
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"UNSOLVABLE" Logic Puzzle: What Are Their Ages?
This is one of those brain teasers that sounds like it's impossible to solve but you can work through it (like the logic puzzle of Cheryl's birthday). A mathematician tells a census taker he has 3 children. The product of their ages is...
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Can You Solve These "Ghostly" Riddles?
This video includes 3 puzzles that ghosts are useful mathematically. Can you figure them out? Puzzle 1: A father left 17 goats to his three sons. His will promised 1/2 of the goats to the oldest son, 1/3 to the middle son, and 1/9 to the...