Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Коркин; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837 – 1 September [O.S. 19 August] 1908) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. Among others, his students included Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev. (Wikipedia).
Vladimir Komarov: the first man to die in space – BBC REEL
On 24 April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die in space. The Soviet Union mourned the loss of a hero when it heard the Soyuz 1 mission was a failure. Some say Komarov knew he was taking part in a doomed operation, but what really happened? Video by Jono Namara Co
From playlist Reel World
A meeting of Kosygin and Charles de Gaulle, President of the french Republic in 1966. Paris, France. GV. Arc de Triomphe, Paris. LV. Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin laying wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. GV. Kosygin and party standing to attention, & SV. SV. Interior,
From playlist RUSSIAN LEADERS
Funeral Of Russia's President Kalinin (1946)
Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. Funeral of former president of USSR, Chairman Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin in Moscow, Russia (Soviet Union). Russian voiceovered newsreel material. The coffin of Kalinin lies in state amongst flowers and candles. C/U the body
From playlist COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST
Gagarin the first man in space died in a plane crash. See here footage from his funeral in 1968. No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union). L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yu
From playlist FUNERALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Maxim Kontsevich, Equations for stability
Maxim Kontsevich, IHÉS, France Equations for stability
From playlist Conférence en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Interview at Cirm: Konstantin Khanin
Chaire Jean-Morlet - First Semester 2017: 'KPZ Universality and Directed Polymers' Konstantin "Kostya" Mikhailovich Khanin is a Russian mathematician and physicist. Khanin received his PhD from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow and continued working there as a research
From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair - Khanin/Shlosman - 1st Semester 2017
Alexander Polyakov - Out of equilibrium
Alexander Polyakov (Princeton Univ.) Out of equilibrium
From playlist Conférence à la mémoire de Vadim Knizhnik
Battlegroup Böhm - The Furthest German Advance West, Ardennes 1944
A lot has been written about the exploits of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Battle of the Bulge, but the furthest west attained by any German unit was actually made by the regular army, Battlegroup Böhm of the 2nd Panzer Division. It made it to within 5km of the Meuse River, a major German obje
From playlist Tanks
The Ancient ‘Mammals’ that Reigned Before the Dinosaurs
This video looks at a group of amazing creatures that existed before the dinosaurs like dimetrodon, gorgonopsids and dicynodonts. We often assume primitive animals lived back then but these animals where anything but, evolving certain features that all mammals possess. If I have used art
From playlist Mammal Evolution
Death Of Russian Spaceman (1967)
No title - Death of Russian spaceman Colonel Vladimir Komarov. Various shots of a spaceship on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. C/U and M/S newspaper headlines announcing the death of Komarov. C/U Komarov's picture. C/U headlines 'Spaceship falls 4 1/2 miles in landing failure'. Var
From playlist Space Disasters
Episodic Memory, Time, and Agency: Some Constraints from Neuropsychology
People with episodic amnesia are frequently said to be stuck in time, trapped in a permanent present tense, and altogether lacking a subjective sense of temporality. These claims are grounded in the well-characterized inability of persons with episodic amnesia to perform much above floor o
From playlist Franke Program in Science and the Humanities
Many thanks to subscriber Theodore Boehne for suggesting this topic. Some people had uncomfortable surnames during WWII, and none more so than a Ukrainian Red Army soldier whose surname was Hitler! Find out his story here... Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historia
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Urysohn widths mod p - Aleksandr Berdnikov
Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members Topic: Urysohn widths mod p Speaker: Aleksandr Berdnikov Affiliation: Member, School of Mathematics Date: September 20, 2022
From playlist Mathematics
How Cambridge Analytica manipulated US election through 50 million Facebook users | Explanation
The data analytics Cambridge Analytica that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested 50 million Facebook profiles of US voters and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box. This video showca
From playlist "Dumb f#$%@" - trust Zucc and his Facebook
This Blind Robot Learned To Climb Any Terrain! 🤖
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From playlist AI and Deep Learning - Two Minute Papers
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From playlist Fluid, Cloth and Hair Simulations (Two Minute Papers)
This AI Creates Dessert Photos...And More! 🍰
❤️ Check out Fully Connected by Weights & Biases: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The paper "NeX: Real-time View Synthesis with Neural Basis Expansion " is available here: https://nex-mpi.github.io/ 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible:
From playlist AI and Deep Learning - Two Minute Papers
DeepMind’s Robot Inserts A USB Stick! 🤖
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From playlist AI and Deep Learning - Two Minute Papers
This Image Is Fine. Completely Fine. 🤖
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambdalabs.com/papers 📝 The paper "The Sensory Neuron as a Transformer: Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning" is available here: https://attentionneuron.github.io/ 🙏 We would like to thank our g
From playlist AI and Deep Learning - Two Minute Papers
8ECM Invited Lecture: Aleksey Kostenko
From playlist 8ECM Invited Lectures