James Gregory (mathematician)

The story of mathematical proof – with John Stillwell

Discover the surprising history of proof, a mathematically vital concept. In this talk John covers the areas of number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and logic, and peer into the deep chasm between natural number arithmetic and the real numbers. Buy John's book here: https://g

From playlist Livestreams

Who was Newton?

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From playlist Science Unplugged: Physics

Marcus du Sautoy on John Tates' work

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics. You can view more content of Marcus du Sautoy here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF21Xc9fSdqVWRxpBAOleQ/featured This video is a clip from the Abel Prize Announcement 2009

From playlist Popular presentations

Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius

Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of the greatest

From playlist My Maths Videos

Origin of Taylor Series

The history of Taylor Series and Maclaurin Series including the works of de Lagny, Halley, Gregory, and Madhava using primary sources whenever possible. Lesson also presents the Taylor Theorem along with visualizations of James Gregory's equations. Finally the video discusses the time peri

From playlist Numerical Methods

Interview at Cirm: Terence TAO

Terence Tao (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, compressed sensing

From playlist English interviews - Interviews en anglais

INTERVIEW AT CIRM: PETER SARNAK

Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews

History of Indian Mathematics Part IV: Madhava's Infinite Series

Learn about Madhava, who discovered the infinite series for the sine and cosine functions! Check out the rest of the series on the blog! https://centerofmathematics.blogspot.com/2019/11/history-of-indian-mathematics.html

From playlist History of Indian Mathematics

Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius [2012]

Description: Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of

From playlist Mathematics

The Story of James Simons - Renaissance Technologies & Medallion Fund

Jim Simons is a mathematician and cryptographer who realized that the complex math he used to break military codes could also explain patterns in the world of finance. James Simons has been described as "the world's smartest billionaire", amassing a fortune through the clever use of mathem

From playlist Statistics For Traders

Kissing Numbers - Numberphile

Featuring James Grime... Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Sphere trilogy: http://bit.ly/Sphere_Trilogy More Dr James Grime on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/grimevideos S

From playlist Sphere Trilogy on Numberphile

A Brief History of Pi

Get 10% off Squarespace by following this link: http://squarespace.com/simonclark Check out my new website here! https://www.simonoxfphys.com/ Note that there's a huge amount about pi that I didn't cover in this video due to time - I didn't even mention proofs of it being irrational and

From playlist Science videos

Abel Prize award ceremony 2021

The ceremony honours both the 2020-winners, Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis, and the 2021-winners, Avi Wigderson and László́ Lovász. 0:30 Haddy N'jie sings Feeling Good 3:18 Welcome by Master of ceremonies, Haddy N'jie 4:46 On the nomination process and the work of the Abel Prize

From playlist Gregory Margulis

How Do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics? | Episode 2106 | Closer To Truth

The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when physicists review the history of physics, what are the ways in which Breakthroughs occur? Featuring interviews with Robbe

From playlist Closer To Truth | Season 21

Pierre de Fermat: Biography of a Great Thinker

As a mathematician, Pierre de Fermat is known as the "Prince of Amateurs." He was actually a lawyer, but worked on math as a hobby. He helped found probability theory and analytic geometry, and made many contributions to number theory. He is possibly best known for "Fermat's Last Theore

From playlist It Starts With Literacy

Teach Astronomy - Newton

http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, Isaac Newton was born just after the death of Galileo. Lonely and moody as a child, his early education was unremarkable, but when he went to university at Cambridge his true intelligence came forth. During a t

From playlist 03. Concepts and History of Astronomy and Physics

The Abel Prize announcement 2020 — Hillel Furstenberg & Gregory Margulis

0:50 The Abel Prize announced by Hans Petter Graver, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1:37 Citation by Hans Munthe-Kaas, Chair of the Abel committee 9:28 Popular presentation of the prize winners work by Alex Bellos, British writer, and science communicator 16:21 I

From playlist Gregory Margulis

Quant Trading - A History

I have been a trader for over twenty years, and from the start of my hedge fund career working with Victor Niederhoffer I have taken a quantitative approach to researching and executing trading strategies. A quant trader is a trader that builds statistical models to test trading strategie

From playlist Top Ten Lists

The Catenary (hanging chain), how it was first solved.

The catenary is the mathematical shape of a hanging chain. Describing this shape is one of the famous original problems of calculus. I discuss the history of the problem, how it was determined that the curve was not a parabola, how to model the curve with a differential equation based on t

From playlist Tricky Parts of Calculus

Interview at Cirm: Michael Harris

Michael Harris is an American mathematician who deals with number theory and algebra. He made notable contributions to the Langlands program, for which he (alongside Richard Taylor) won the 2007 Clay Research Award. In particular, he (jointly with Taylor), proved the local Langlands conjec

From playlist English interviews - Interviews en anglais