The Most Wanted Prime Number
Neil Sloane explains the world’s most wanted Prime Number.
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The Reciprocals of Prime Numbers
Matt Parker explores the work of William Shanks and the inverse of primes.
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Deep Math – Machine Learning and Mathematics
In December 2021 mathematicians at Oxford and Sydney universities together with their collaborators at Google DeepMind announced that they had successfully used tools from machine learning to discover new patterns in mathematics.
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Computerphile Explains the Mythical Man Month
Many will have heard the phrase ‘Mythical Man Month’ and assume it’s simply about whether manpower and time are interchangeable – the book is really about much more. Professor Brailsford explains how this all relates to the humble byte
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Can one calculate 100 digits of π by hand? The William Shanks method.
For Pi Day 2022, StandUpMaths used the same method as William Shanks and we got π = 3.14159265358… you know, etc etc.
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Twos-Day Tuesday! 22 YouTubers celebrate all things “two” and nothing goes wrong.
Today is 2/2/22 — Happy Twos-Day Tuesday.
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The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach
The JPEG algorithm is rather complex and this video breaks down the core parts of the algorithm, specifically color spaces, YCbCr, chroma subsampling, the discrete cosine transform, quantization, and lossless encoding. The majority of the focus is on the mathematical and signal processing insights that lead to advancements in image compression and the big themes […]
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What is a Number?
For Philosophy Friday let’s ask the question: what is a number? ,
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