John Wallis

Who was Newton?

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From playlist Science Unplugged: Physics

People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Wendy Hall on Alan Turing

Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world. Find out more about Alan Turing in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/peopl

From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox

To you, who was Albert Einstein?

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From playlist Science Unplugged: Special Relativity

John Railing - Magic of Movable Books: History of Pop-up Books & Paper Engineering - CoM Apr 2021

Movable books began with science and math treatises in the 1500s – had its Golden Age in the late 19th C. – and its renaissance beginning in the 1960s, mainly due to a handful of pioneers in mass-producing hand-assembled books inexpensively. John has amassed a collection of over 6,000 mova

From playlist Celebration of Mind 2021

People of Science with Brian Cox - Professor Joanna Haigh on Lewis Fry Richardson

Joanna Haigh talks to Brian Cox about mathematician and physicist, Lewis Fry Richardson, and discusses his groundbreaking concept of a ‘weather forecasting factory’. Find out more about Lewis Fry Richardson in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/

From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox

John Norris Bahcall - Part I

A Celebration of the Life and Work of John Norris Bahcall October 29, 2005 Nathan Seiberg, Art McDonald, Wick Haxton and Carlos Pena-Garay John Norris Bahcall, Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, recipient of the

From playlist Natural Sciences

Robert James Phillips NS

The life of Robert James Phillips in pictures (the slideshow shown at his memorial).

From playlist Family

Queen Elizabeth I's Astronomer, John Dee

Dr. John Dee was the quintessential Renaissance Man. Much misunderstood, he is perhaps most remembered for his impact on western esotericism. He was the man tasked with consulting the stars to find the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth I's coronation. He was one of the most accomplis

From playlist Europe

Prof. David Blight: Historical Narratives of Slavery in America

Professor Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of History at Yale University, is the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center. He has written numerous books on race and American history, and lectures widely on Frederi

From playlist The MacMillan Report

People of Science with Brian Cox - Richard Fortey on Charles Lyell

Richard Fortey talks to Brian Cox about pioneering geologist, Charles Lyell, whose work on extending geological time provided credibility to Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Find out more about Charles Lyell in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/ex

From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox

John Wallis' product formula to approximate "pi/2" | Algebraic Calculus One | Anna Tomskova

Dr Anna Tomskova explains John Wallis' product formula for "pi" using Excel. This powerful program can illustrate many mathematical ideas of an algorithmic nature, as the inductive step of procedures can often be captured by the "dragging" operation in Excel. ************************ Scre

From playlist Algebraic Calculus One

The Wallis product for pi, proved geometrically

A geometric proof of a famous Wallis product for pi. Help fund future projects: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown An equally valuable form of support is to simply share some of the videos. Special thanks to these supporters: http://3b1b.co/wallis-thanks Here's a supplemental blog post,

From playlist Why pi?

John Norris Bahcall - Part III

A Celebration of the Life and Work of John Norris Bahcall October 29, 2005 James Wolfensohn, Peter Goddard, Martin Rees, Boris Kayser, Edward Witten, Freeman Dyson, Vera Rubin, Frank Shu, Norman Lebowitz and Robert O'Dell John Norris Bahcall, Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics in th

From playlist Natural Sciences

Britain's Most Daring WW2 Raid

Be one of the first 73 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realengineering/ New vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Thank you to AP Archive for providing archival footage! Patreo

From playlist Military

The De Vicci Cube – Greg Huber

The De Vicci Cube is the largest cube that fits entirely within a unit tesseract -- a problem with roots that go back centuries, and one that greatly interested Gardner. I present some a progress report on the natural generalization of this problem, the generalized Rupert Problem, includi

From playlist G4G12 Videos

Euler's infinite pi formula generator

Today we derive them all, the most famous infinite pi formulas: The Leibniz-Madhava formula for pi, John Wallis's infinite product formula, Lord Brouncker's infinite fraction formula, Euler's Basel formula and it's infinitely many cousins. And we do this starting with one of Euler's crazy

From playlist Recent videos

The First Men To Fly Across The Globe | The Greatest Air Race | Spark

The Greatest Air Race is presented and narrated by astronaut Andy Thomas as he embarks on a trans-continental journey to retell one of the world’s greatest aviation stories. In 1919, four Australians became the first men to fly across the globe. They flew from London to Darwin in a rudimen

From playlist Spark Top Docs

Curves in Modern Times | Algebraic Calculus One | Wild Egg

This video introduces some key objects, and also challenges, when we move beyond the Greek tradition to the more modern view of "curves". This rests crucially on the development of analytic geometry, or Cartesian coordinates, by Fermat and Descartes in the 17th century. They, along with Jo

From playlist Algebraic Calculus One from Wild Egg

Pi: the Story of an Extra Little Bit | Exploratorium

Pi is just a little bit bigger than three. But exactly how much bigger? For over 2,000 years, humans have been coming up with ingenious schemes to find out. This animated talk explores some of these methods, from the ancient "polygon method" of Archimedes to the psychedelic formulas of Ram

From playlist Pi Day | Exploratorium

Richard Feynman Thinking Part 1 of 2

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the super fluidity of super cooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the Parton model). Fo

From playlist Feynman's Lectures