TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The greatest mathematician that never lived | Pratik Aghor
When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. He'd published articles in international journals and his textbooks were required...
TED Talks
TED: The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he's working to support the next generation of math teachers and...
Science360
Strawberry fields forever - with some help from mathematicians!
The Pajaro Valley, in the Monterey Bay area of California, is ideally suited for agriculture. In fact, the Pajaro Valley and the nearby Salinas Valley produce nearly half of the strawberries grown in the United States yearly. But, the...
Science360
Strawberry fields forever with some help from mathematicians!
The Pajaro Valley, in the Monterey Bay area of California, is ideally suited for agriculture. In fact, the Pajaro Valley and the nearby Salinas Valley produce nearly half of the strawberries grown in the United States yearly. But, the...
Great Big Story
Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
Discover the legendary chalk that mathematicians swear by, known for its clean lines and density. But with supply dwindling, a new source emerges.
Gresham College
The Secret Mathematicians - Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Professor du Sautoy examines the way that Mathematics has overtly and covertly inspired some of the greatest artists. He examines how they might be considered as secret mathematicians:...
World Science Festival
How Is A Mathematician’s Work Done?
How do mathematicians work? We’re not asking whether they run on sandwiches or rocket fuel, but rather, “How is a mathematician’s work done?” Is it like the movies, where a tortured professor scribbles equations all over a blackboard...
Gresham College
Hanna Neumann: A Mathematician in Difficult Times - Dr Peter Neumann
A phenomenal mathematician, Hanna Neumann achieved her success in the fac of the Nazis, an imprisoned husband and entrenched misogyny: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/hanna-neumann-a-mathematician-in-difficult-times Dr Peter...
Gresham College
What Have Mathematicians Done For Us? - Professor Chris Budd OBE
The contribution of mathematicians over the centuries will be celebrated, showing how mathematical ideas have huge relevance today varying between Maxwell and the mobile phone, Florence Nightingale and modern statistics, Pythagoras and...
Gresham College
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...
Gresham College
The Secret Mathematicians: Iannis Xenakis - Marcus Du Sautoy
Iannis Xenakis was a man of many talents; a musician, musical theorist, composer, architect, and not least a Gresham Professor. Marcus Du Sautoy looks at the work of Xenakis and shows how mathematics is the foundation on which the work...
Gresham College
The Secret Mathematicians: Le Corbusier & Architecture - Marcus Du Sautoy
Professor Du Sautoy discusses the mathematics of ratios that inform the work of the great architect, Le Corbusier. He discusses how these ratios are found in nature and how they inform music, design and living....
Gresham College
The Secret Mathematicians: Jorge Luis Borges - Marcus Du Sautoy
Marcus Du Sautoy investigates the writings of Argentine master, Jorge Luis Borges, seeking its mathematical underpinnings. Looking both at the life of the man and his texts, specifically ‘The Library of Babel’ Professor Du Sautoy shows...
Gresham College
Two Losses Make a Win: How a Physicist Surprised Mathematicians - Professor Tony Mann
One of the most extraordinary pieces of new mathematics was a discovery by the Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/two-losses-make-a-win-how-a-physicist-surprised-mathematicians One of the most...
Gresham College
Stories about Mathematicians Killed in World War I
Gresham College with the BSHM - To commemorate the end of the First World War, this event focuses on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime. A lecture by Professor David Aubin, Professor in the History of Science at Paris-Sorbonne...
Gresham College
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...
Curated Video
How a mathematician dissects a coincidence
Can you unknot a twist of fate with logic? Vox's Phil Edwards asked mathematician Joseph Mazur about his book, Fluke, and one of its most incredible stories. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more:...
Numberphile
The Mathematician's Office - Numberphile
Cedric Villani is one of the world's most famous mathematicians. What does he keep in his office, and how important is his office to doing inspirational mathematics? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Villani playlist (more...
Gresham College
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...
Gresham College
The Secret Mathematicians: Olivier Messiaen - Marcus Du Sautoy
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of the time was created in a concentration camp using the only available instruments; it’s a profound an disturbingly beautiful work. Here, Marcus Du Sautoy explains how a mathematical analysis of...
Biography
Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician | Biography
Explore the life of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who, as part of the team of "human computers" that enabled astronauts Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and the Apollo 11 and 13 missions to make space history, was later depicted in the...
World Science Festival
Mathematician W. Hugh Woodin Explains Continuum Hypothesis
Mathematician W. Hugh Woodin has devoted his life to the study of infinity, attempting to solve the unsolvable. Doing so does require some mental gymnastics and willingness to change your mind if the evidence points in another direction....
Curated Video
Mathematicians helping Art Historians and Art Conservators - Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Mathematicians have helped art historians and art conservators reconstruct the famous Mantegna frescos, shattered into thousands of fragments by WWII bombing. Algorithms have helped to identify "roll mates" - paintings whose canvases...
Gresham College
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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