Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
Logic and Wonder: The Dual Worlds of Lewis Carroll
This video introduces us to Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. We learn about Dodgson's personal history, including his physical ailments and his career as a professor of mathematics. The video underscores how...
Numberphile
Collatz Conjecture in Color - Numberphile
The Great Courses Plus (free trial): http://ow.ly/RqOr309wT7v This video features Alex Bellos. More info and links in full description. Extra footage with Alex and coloring: https://youtu.be/w8nc8wbgXPU Or real-time video of the...
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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...
World Science Festival
Creating Universes with Digital Bits
In 1970, a mathematician named John Horton Conway devised a self-sustaining simulation based on several simple rules. What he didn't know is that his "Game of Life" would create a whole new field of mathematics and cause theorists to...
Northeast Arkansas Education Cooperative
Polynomial Operations
This overview of polynomial operations does a solid job of summarizing how a mathematician attacks adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials. With particular emphasis on combining like terms and when exponents do and do not...