Special functions

Bateman Manuscript Project

The Bateman Manuscript Project was a major effort at collation and encyclopedic compilation of the mathematical theory of special functions. It resulted in the eventual publication of five important reference volumes, under the editorship of Arthur Erdélyi. (Wikipedia).

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Humanities + Digital Tools: Text Technologies

This video in the Stanford Humanities + Digital Tools series presents “Text Technologies,” a digital humanities project that combines the history of the book and digital humanities to investigate the long history of the “text” from the earliest period of human communication to the present.

From playlist Humanities + Digital Tools

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Art Quiz #5

Art Quiz #5

From playlist Art Quizzes

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MATLAB and Simulink Student Design Challenge

This is our project based on the image processing.

From playlist MATLAB and Simulink Student Challenge 2013 Entries

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Form, Structure and Style in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

In this lecture, Dr Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham) explores the genre, structure and style of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, focusing in particular on: (i) the idea of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a dystopian novel, and what this means; (ii) the tripartite structure of the novel, and

From playlist English Literature

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New Image Analysis Tools for Manuscripts

15 minute presentation: new approaches to developing tools for supporting research in digital manuscript collections.

From playlist New Directions for Digital Scholarship

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Stanford artist collaborates with physics department for 'Drawing with Tetrahedra'

Physics faculty members and graduate students use tetrahedra to create a less-than-perfect structure that explores the connection between shape and sound. For more information, see: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/tetra-physics-vivaldi-040214.html

From playlist Stanford Highlights

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Malabika Pramanik: Lacunarity, Kakeya type sets and directional maximal operators

The lecture was held within the framework of the Hausdorff Trimester Program Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. 15.7.2014

From playlist HIM Lectures: Trimester Program "Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations"

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Art Quiz #57

From playlist Art Quizzes

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1. Introduction to 'The Society of Mind'

MIT 6.868J The Society of Mind, Fall 2011 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-868JF11 Instructor: Marvin Minsky In this lecture, students discuss the introduction to The Emotion Machine, expectations and overview of the class, and general understanding of emotions, consciousnes

From playlist MIT 6.868J The Society of Mind, Fall 2011

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Making ferrofluid from scratch

Back in October, I tried making ferrofluid but I kept failing and I ended up giving up for a while. Months later though, I got inspired, and I spent an insane amount of time researching ferrofluid and trying to make it. It was a very messy and sometimes frustrating process, but I was event

From playlist Long Projects (25 min+)

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CTNT 2020 - The global field Euler function. Santiago Arango-Piñeros.

The paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04521?fbclid=IwAR34njBRG6gEAjzQqdk7johkPEC5i4c5Bbq1MJtyeNAZ95yeQWvaiys2LF0 Comments very welcome!

From playlist CTNT 2020 - Conference Videos

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'Lord of the Flies' Character Analysis: Piggy

In this video we analyse the character of Piggy from ‘Lord of the Flies’. Sources referenced: ‘William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery’ by Virginia Tiger (1974); ‘William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies’, by Professor John Carey, (2009); ‘William Golding : Lord of the F

From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

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Episode 014: This is an Idea of a Podcast Episode—American Psycho (2000)

***Originally published on May 18, 2020*** Join Alex in a solo episode as he discusses the psychological concepts in an “American” classic, American Psycho (2000) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084), starring Christian Bale in perhaps one is his most iconic performances as Patrick Bate

From playlist CinemaPsych Podcast

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Michael Eastwood: Twistor theory for LQG

Twistor Theory was proposed in the late 1960s by Roger Penrose as a potential geometric unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. During the past 50 years, there have been many mathematical advances and achievements in twistor theory. In physics, however, there are aspirati

From playlist Mathematical Physics

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The Computer Chronicles - Software Thinking Tools (1996)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

From playlist Computer Chronicles Episodes on Software

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The Order of Operations - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 8/22/17

Tested's own Jeremy Williams joins us this week chat about how we each watched the recent Eclipse, Adam's latest machining projects, and how we plan out the order of operations for our own projects. Plus, an appreciation for HBO's documentary series The Defiant Ones! To subscribe to Still

From playlist The Adam Savage Project

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Bibliotheca Arabica – A Digital Home for the Arabic Manuscript Tradition

Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Topic: Bibliotheca Arabica - A Digital Home for the Arabic Manuscript Tradition Speakers: Verena Klemm (Institute of Arabic Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany) Stefanie Brinkmann (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) Boris L

From playlist Historical Studies

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The Computer Chronicles - Computers and Kids (1995)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

From playlist Miscellaneous Computer Chronicles Episodes

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An Egyptian Sheikh’s Literary World - Adam Mestyan&Kathryn Schwarz

Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship @IAS Joint Lecture Topic: An Egyptian Sheikh’s Literary World Speakers: Adam Mestyan; Kathryn Schwarz Affiliation: Duke University; University of Massachusetts Amherst Date: March 17, 2021 “An Egyptian Sheikh’s Literary World” digitally reco

From playlist Historical Studies

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Salvaging the Rational Heritage of Islam: The Zaydi Manuscript tradition project - Sabine Schmidtke

Friends' Talk Topic: Salvaging the Rational Geritage of Islam: The Zaydi Manuscript tradition project Speaker: Sabine Schmitke Date: October 13, 2017 For more videos, please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Friends of the Institute

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Abramowitz and Stegun | Elliptic function | NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions | Special functions | Mathematical table | Richard Askey | Digital Library of Mathematical Functions | Spherical harmonics | Applied mathematics